[PATCH 4/5] sctp: Improve a size determination in sctp_inetaddr_event()

SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-22T16:40:37Z

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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 <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
---
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