From: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:53:37 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Staging: media: davinci_vpfe: Fix preferred form of passing a size
X-Git-Tag: v5.2-rc1~153^2~270
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3703713e18a74103c2a0c2206ebc759fe068ca6;p=linux.git

Staging: media: davinci_vpfe: Fix preferred form of passing a size

Fix preferred form of passing a size of a struct to improve readability
and eradicate an opportunity for a bug when the pointer variable type is
changed but the corresponding sizeof that is passed to a memory
allocator is not.

Signed-off-by: Madhumitha Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_ipipe.c b/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_ipipe.c
index 3d910b85905c..30e2edc0cec5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_ipipe.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/davinci_vpfe/dm365_ipipe.c
@@ -1264,8 +1264,7 @@ static int ipipe_s_config(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, struct vpfe_ipipe_config *cfg)
 		module_if = &ipipe_modules[i];
 		from = *(void **)((void *)cfg + module_if->config_offset);
 
-		params = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ipipe_module_params),
-				 GFP_KERNEL);
+		params = kmalloc(sizeof(*params), GFP_KERNEL);
 		to = (void *)params + module_if->param_offset;
 		size = module_if->param_size;
 
@@ -1306,8 +1305,7 @@ static int ipipe_g_config(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, struct vpfe_ipipe_config *cfg)
 		module_if = &ipipe_modules[i];
 		to = *(void **)((void *)cfg + module_if->config_offset);
 
-		params = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ipipe_module_params),
-				 GFP_KERNEL);
+		params = kmalloc(sizeof(*params), GFP_KERNEL);
 		from = (void *)params + module_if->param_offset;
 		size = module_if->param_size;