It's only used at this one time, so we could remove it as well.
This is valid and also makes it more explicit/obvious that in case
of error the sp->ep is NULL here, i.e. for the sctp_destroy_sock()
check that was recently added.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/socket.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index f631c5f..510dc79 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -3862,7 +3862,6 @@ out:
SCTP_STATIC int sctp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
{
struct net *net = sock_net(sk);
- struct sctp_endpoint *ep;
struct sctp_sock *sp;
SCTP_DEBUG_PRINTK("sctp_init_sock(sk: %p)\n", sk);
@@ -3971,11 +3970,10 @@ SCTP_STATIC int sctp_init_sock(struct sock *sk)
* change the data structure relationships, this may still
* be useful for storing pre-connect address information.
*/
- ep = sctp_endpoint_new(sk, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ep)
+ sp->ep = sctp_endpoint_new(sk, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!sp->ep)
return -ENOMEM;
- sp->ep = ep;
sp->hmac = NULL;
SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_INC(sock);
--
1.7.11.7
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