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authorMarkus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>2016-09-10 08:48:17 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-09-10 21:45:25 -0700
commit304f0a4edbbb2d273d7c6043df4126b623cd472c (patch)
treecce347c634dfac755e5b26d9b39dae0319059491 /drivers/atm
parentee41f07c2f2c944465ade7c9591a6139a783be41 (diff)
downloadlinux-304f0a4edbbb2d273d7c6043df4126b623cd472c.tar.gz
ATM-nicstar: Refactor a kmalloc() call in ns_init_card()
* The script "checkpatch.pl" can point out that assignments should usually
  not be performed within condition checks.
  Thus move an assignment for a local variable to a separate statement
  in this function.

* 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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/atm')
-rw-r--r--drivers/atm/nicstar.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/atm/nicstar.c b/drivers/atm/nicstar.c
index ef977bf54a40..04f5781dca30 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/nicstar.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/nicstar.c
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ static int ns_init_card(int i, struct pci_dev *pcidev)
 		return error;
         }
 
-	if ((card = kmalloc(sizeof(ns_dev), GFP_KERNEL)) == NULL) {
+	card = kmalloc(sizeof(*card), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!card) {
 		printk
 		    ("nicstar%d: can't allocate memory for device structure.\n",
 		     i);