linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] sctp: Improve a size determination in sctp_inetaddr

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Message-ID: <a96c883f-0495-ad8c-e3a4-c80f27b76ed2@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 18:40:37 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] sctp: Improve a size determination in
 sctp_inetaddr_event()

From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.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@...rs.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