[PATCH 08/18] [media] RedRat3: Improve another size determination in redrat3_send_cmd()

From	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 08/18] [media] RedRat3: Improve another size determination in redrat3_send_cmd()
Date	2016-10-13 18:40 +0200
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 13:31:17 +0200

Replace the specification of a data type 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/media/rc/redrat3.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c b/drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c
index 5832e6f..f6c21a1 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/redrat3.c
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static int redrat3_send_cmd(int cmd, struct redrat3_dev *rr3)
 	u8 *data;
 	int res;
 
-	data = kzalloc(sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
+	data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!data)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.10.1

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