[PATCH 1/2] alpha-module: Improve a size determination in module_frob_arch_sections()

From	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 1/2] alpha-module: Improve a size determination in module_frob_arch_sections()
Date	2017-05-11 14:00 +0200
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From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 12:54:29 +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 according to the Linux coding style convention.

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

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
index 936bc8f89a67..387d9c500e48 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/module.c
@@ -105,5 +105,5 @@ module_frob_arch_sections(Elf64_Ehdr *hdr, Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 	}
 
 	nsyms = symtab->sh_size / sizeof(Elf64_Sym);
-	chains = kcalloc(nsyms, sizeof(struct got_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+	chains = kcalloc(nsyms, sizeof(*chains), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!chains) {
-- 
2.12.3

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[PATCH 0/2] alpha-module: Adjustments for module_frob_arch_sections() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-11 14:00 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] alpha-module: Delete an error message for a failed memory  allocation in module_frob_arch_sections() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-11 14:00 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] alpha-module: Improve a size determination in  module_frob_arch_sections() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-11 14:00 +0200

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