Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: Improve a size determination in two functions

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Sat Aug 19 2017 - 21:49:28 EST


On 8/19/17 6:48 AM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 13:14:26 +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 <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> fs/ext4/dir.c | 2 +-
> fs/ext4/mmp.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/dir.c b/fs/ext4/dir.c
> index e8b365000d73..b04e882179c6 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/dir.c
> @@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ static struct dir_private_info *ext4_htree_create_dir_info(struct file *filp,
> {
> struct dir_private_info *p;
>
> - p = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dir_private_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!p)
> return NULL;
> p->curr_hash = pos2maj_hash(filp, pos);
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mmp.c b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
> index 1ce00453f612..3fa5df9f5573 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/mmp.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/mmp.c
> @@ -367,5 +367,5 @@ int ext4_multi_mount_protect(struct super_block *sb,
> goto failed;
> }
>
> - mmpd_data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mmpd_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> + mmpd_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*mmpd_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!mmpd_data)
>