From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:34:04 +0100

Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
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]>
---
 sound/mips/hal2.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/mips/hal2.c b/sound/mips/hal2.c
index 30563d9aa5c8..675c3aba794e 100644
--- a/sound/mips/hal2.c
+++ b/sound/mips/hal2.c
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static int hal2_create(struct snd_card *card, struct 
snd_hal2 **rchip)
        struct hpc3_regs *hpc3 = hpc3c0;
        int err;
 
-       hal2 = kzalloc(sizeof(struct snd_hal2), GFP_KERNEL);
+       hal2 = kzalloc(sizeof(*hal2), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!hal2)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.15.0

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