On 05/22/2017 12:40 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@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 <elfr...@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;
>
Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasev...@gmail.com>
-vlad
