Re: [PATCH] staging: mt7621-dma: sizeof via pointer dereference

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 18:06:02 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:41:43PM +0000, Benjamin Sherman wrote:
> 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 <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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(-)

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thanks,

greg k-h