Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: ion: fixed a kzalloc coding style issue.

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On 26/05/16 09:01, Shubham Bansal wrote:
> Fixed a coding style issue. Issue reported by checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shubham Bansal <illusionist.neo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c
> index 8536567..2217ccb 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.c
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static struct ion_buffer *ion_buffer_create(struct ion_heap *heap,
>  	struct scatterlist *sg;
>  	int i, ret;
>  
> -	buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ion_buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	buffer = kzalloc(sizeof(*buffer), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buffer)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
> 


This patch looks good.

It is not a big issue, but have it in mind for the future. When fixing issues
reported by checkpatch, it is nice to paste the output warning of checkpatch
in the commit message.

Look at this example:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=e7a142aaa09fa5db015fd176d6943f888665829f

Thanks,
Luis