Vlad, event_arg can never be the type of "struct sctp_chunk *" if the event_type is SCTP_EVENT_T_OTHER. This fix prevents from potential kernel crash by some misuse. Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c index a4763fd..1b4bae9 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c @@ -1072,7 +1072,8 @@ static int sctp_cmd_interpreter(sctp_event_t event_type, struct sctp_sackhdr sackh; int local_cork = 0; - if (SCTP_EVENT_T_TIMEOUT != event_type) + if (SCTP_EVENT_T_TIMEOUT != event_type && + SCTP_EVENT_T_OTHER != event_type) chunk = (struct sctp_chunk *) event_arg; /* Note: This whole file is a huge candidate for rework. -- 1.5.3 -- Regards Gui Jianfeng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html