From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 16:40:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] sctp: Improve a size determination in sctp_inetaddr_event() Message-Id: List-Id: References: <2845df67-d35d-536a-0a53-b2eb83fe1ba5@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <2845df67-d35d-536a-0a53-b2eb83fe1ba5@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" , Neil Horman , Vlad Yasevich Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org From: Markus Elfring Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 18:08:24 +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. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- net/sctp/protocol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/protocol.c b/net/sctp/protocol.c index 64756c42cec9..057479b7bd72 100644 --- a/net/sctp/protocol.c +++ b/net/sctp/protocol.c @@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ static int sctp_inetaddr_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long ev, switch (ev) { case NETDEV_UP: - addr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sctp_sockaddr_entry), GFP_ATOMIC); + addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_ATOMIC); if (addr) { addr->a.v4.sin_family = AF_INET; addr->a.v4.sin_port = 0; -- 2.13.0