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ATM-nicstar: Refactor a kmalloc() call in ns_init_card()
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* 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>
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Markus Elfring authored and David S. Miller committed Sep 11, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -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);
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