From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 22:00:25 +0200

Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/acpi/scan.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
index 7df7bea1e177..34bc7274dc8e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ int acpi_device_add(struct acpi_device *device,
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&device->del_list);
        mutex_init(&device->physical_node_lock);
 
-       new_bus_id = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_device_bus_id), GFP_KERNEL);
+       new_bus_id = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_bus_id), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!new_bus_id) {
                result = -ENOMEM;
                goto err_detach;
@@ -1577,7 +1577,7 @@ static int acpi_add_single_object(struct acpi_device 
**child,
        struct acpi_device *device;
        struct acpi_buffer buffer = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL };
 
-       device = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_device), GFP_KERNEL);
+       device = kzalloc(sizeof(*device), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!device)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1786,7 +1786,7 @@ static void acpi_device_dep_initialize(struct acpi_device 
*adev)
                if (skip)
                        continue;
 
-               dep = kzalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_dep_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+               dep = kzalloc(sizeof(*dep), GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!dep)
                        return;
 
-- 
2.14.2

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