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[PATCH 26/54] md/raid5: Improve another size determination in setup_conf()

From SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 26/54] md/raid5: Improve another size determination in setup_conf()
Date 2016-10-06 11:30 +0200
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 22:35:06 +0200

Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
determination a bit safer.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 9a43006..562138f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -6481,7 +6481,7 @@ static struct r5conf *setup_conf(struct mddev *mddev)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
-	conf = kzalloc(sizeof(struct r5conf), GFP_KERNEL);
+	conf = kzalloc(sizeof(*conf), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (conf == NULL)
 		goto abort;
 	/* Don't enable multi-threading by default*/
-- 
2.10.1

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[PATCH 26/54] md/raid5: Improve another size determination in  setup_conf() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-10-06 11:30 +0200

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