From: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING [IPv4/IPv6]),
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Cc: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: ipconfig: use ifreq field aliases
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 14:44:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909144417.28871-1-lalitshankarch@gmail.com> (raw)
Use the ifr_addr and ifr_name macros instead of the lengthier versions.
Signed-off-by: Lalit Shankar Chowdhury <lalitshankarch@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
index 155db067eaec..475393a86c91 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@ set_sockaddr(struct sockaddr_in *sin, __be32 addr, __be16 port)
static int __init ic_setup_if(void)
{
struct ifreq ir;
- struct sockaddr_in *sin = (void *) &ir.ifr_ifru.ifru_addr;
+ struct sockaddr_in *sin = (void *) &ir.ifr_addr;
int err;
memset(&ir, 0, sizeof(ir));
- strcpy(ir.ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name, ic_dev->dev->name);
+ strcpy(ir.ifr_name, ic_dev->dev->name);
set_sockaddr(sin, ic_myaddr, 0);
if ((err = devinet_ioctl(&init_net, SIOCSIFADDR, &ir)) < 0) {
pr_err("IP-Config: Unable to set interface address (%d)\n",
--
2.53.0
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2026-09-09 14:44 Lalit Shankar Chowdhury [this message]
2026-09-10 10:31 ` Ido Schimmel
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