Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/intel: Fix allocation size of struct ucode_patch

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 12:14:13AM +0000, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> Personally I have same opinion as yours. :)
> 
> But according to Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, it seems
> "sizeof(*p)" is preferred style and the reason there makes some
> sense.
> 
> Quote from coding-style.rst:
>   > The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
>   > 
>   >         p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
>   > 
>   > The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts readability and
							^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Yeah, right. Change is from 2005 (af4e5a218e18a). Pekka didn't know better then. :-P

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