PATCH: Fix poor pointer math in devinet_sysctl_register

[Jordan Crouse]

This patch fixes pointer math that under certain circumstances, results
in really bad pointers. This was encountered on a system compiled for i486, so
other compilers may differ, but I don't think it hurts anyone.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@xxxxxxx>
---

 net/ipv4/devinet.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 4ec4b2c..7585fce 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ static void devinet_sysctl_register(stru
 		return;
 	memcpy(t, &devinet_sysctl, sizeof(*t));
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(t->devinet_vars) - 1; i++) {
-		t->devinet_vars[i].data += (char *)p - (char *)&ipv4_devconf;
+		t->devinet_vars[i].data += (int)((char *)p - (char *)&ipv4_devconf);
 		t->devinet_vars[i].de = NULL;
 	}
 

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