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[2/4,media] ds3000: Improve a size determination in ds3000_attach()

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SF Markus Elfring Aug. 30, 2017, 8:22 p.m. UTC 
From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:49:22 +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.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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 drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.c b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.c
index c2959a9695a7..988a464de3e9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/ds3000.c
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@  struct dvb_frontend *ds3000_attach(const struct ds3000_config *config,
 	dprintk("%s\n", __func__);
 
 	/* allocate memory for the internal state */
-	state = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ds3000_state), GFP_KERNEL);
+	state = kzalloc(sizeof(*state), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!state)
 		goto error2;