[PATCH 02/73] staging: wilc1000: fixes a struct allocation to match coding standards

Glen Lee glen.lee at atmel.com
Fri Nov 6 02:12:23 UTC 2015


From: Leo Kim <leo.kim at atmel.com>

This patch fixes the checks reported by checkpatch.pl
for prefer kmalloc(sizeof(*tx_data)...) over kmalloc(sizeof(struct tx_complete_data)...)

Signed-off-by: Leo Kim <leo.kim at atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Glen Lee <glen.lee at atmel.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
index 976964d..947c9f9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ int mac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	tx_data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tx_complete_data), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	tx_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*tx_data), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!tx_data) {
 		PRINT_ER("Failed to allocate memory for tx_data structure\n");
 		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
-- 
1.9.1



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