[PATCH 3/5] um: port: Improve size determinations in port_data()

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Wed Jan 18 2017 - 16:59:22 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 22:20:14 +0100

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.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c
index c96741e920f5..60c1b43a8381 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ void *port_data(int port_num)
if (port->port == port_num)
goto found;
}
- port = kmalloc(sizeof(struct port_list), GFP_KERNEL);
+ port = kmalloc(sizeof(*port), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!port)
goto out;

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ void *port_data(int port_num)
list_add(&port->list, &ports);

found:
- dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct port_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+ dev = kmalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev)
goto out;

--
2.11.0