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[PATCH] intel-hid: allocate correct amount of memory for private struct

From Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] intel-hid: allocate correct amount of memory for private struct
Date 2016-02-21 18:40 +0100
Message-ID <r4G9e-XY-49@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

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We want the size of the struct, not of a pointer to it. To be future
proof, just dereference the pointer to get the desired type.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
---

Compile tested only. Found by static code analysis.

 drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c
index e20f23e04c24ce..f93abc8c1424ad 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel-hid.c
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ static int intel_hid_probe(struct platform_device *device)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	priv = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev,
-			    sizeof(struct intel_hid_priv *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	priv = devm_kzalloc(&device->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!priv)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	dev_set_drvdata(&device->dev, priv);
-- 
2.7.0

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[PATCH] intel-hid: allocate correct amount of memory for private struct Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2016-02-21 18:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] intel-hid: allocate correct amount of memory for private  struct Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-02-22 23:30 +0100

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