Mar 13 2015

staging: netlogic: allocate right size in devm_kzalloc 

Author: Ravindran, Madhusudhanan (M.) <mravindr@visteon.com>

sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives
the size of the pointer.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/misc/noderef.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Madhusudhanan Ravindran 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
index e8aae09..8ae0175 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
@@ -1012,7 +1012,7 @@ static int xlr_net_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	 * Allocate our adapter data structure and attach it to the device.
 	 */
 	adapter = (struct xlr_adapter *)
-		devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
+		devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*adapter), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!adapter) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		return err;

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