Passing "sizeof(struct blah)" in kzalloc calls is less readable, potentially prone to future bugs if the type of the pointer is changed, and triggers checkpatch warnings.
Tweak the kzalloc calls in l2tp which use this form to avoid the warning. Signed-off-by: Tom Parkin <tpar...@katalix.com> --- net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c index 4973a0f035e3..b871cceeff7c 100644 --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c @@ -1410,7 +1410,7 @@ int l2tp_tunnel_create(struct net *net, int fd, int version, u32 tunnel_id, u32 if (cfg) encap = cfg->encap; - tunnel = kzalloc(sizeof(struct l2tp_tunnel), GFP_KERNEL); + tunnel = kzalloc(sizeof(*tunnel), GFP_KERNEL); if (!tunnel) { err = -ENOMEM; goto err; @@ -1647,7 +1647,7 @@ struct l2tp_session *l2tp_session_create(int priv_size, struct l2tp_tunnel *tunn { struct l2tp_session *session; - session = kzalloc(sizeof(struct l2tp_session) + priv_size, GFP_KERNEL); + session = kzalloc(sizeof(*session) + priv_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (session) { session->magic = L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC; session->tunnel = tunnel; -- 2.17.1