Pass the size of a struct into kzalloc by pointer dereference. This complies with the Linux kernel coding style and removes the possibility for a bug when the pointer's type is changed.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Sherman <[email protected]> --- This is my first patch, so please forgive any seemingly obvious mistakes. I apologize if this is the incorrect mailing list. --- drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/mtk-hsdma.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/mtk-hsdma.c b/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/mtk-hsdma.c index a58725dd2611..60db06768c8a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/mtk-hsdma.c +++ b/drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/mtk-hsdma.c @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *mtk_hsdma_prep_dma_memcpy( if (len <= 0) return NULL; - desc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mtk_hsdma_desc), GFP_ATOMIC); + desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*desc), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!desc) { dev_err(c->device->dev, "alloc memcpy decs error\n"); return NULL; -- 2.21.0
