diff --git a/include/net/sctp/structs.h b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
index e171d3a3d2b4..b6d75b37f84d 100644
--- a/include/net/sctp/structs.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/structs.h
@@ -1992,9 +1992,9 @@ struct sctp_cmsgs {
 };
 
 /* Structure for tracking memory objects */
-typedef struct {
+struct sctp_dbg_objcnt_entry {
 	char *label;
 	atomic_t *counter;
-} sctp_dbg_objcnt_entry_t;
+};
 
 #endif /* __sctp_structs_h__ */
diff --git a/net/sctp/objcnt.c b/net/sctp/objcnt.c
index 105ac3327b28..aeea6da81441 100644
--- a/net/sctp/objcnt.c
+++ b/net/sctp/objcnt.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT(keys);
 /* An array to make it easy to pretty print the debug information
  * to the proc fs.
  */
-static sctp_dbg_objcnt_entry_t sctp_dbg_objcnt[] = {
+static struct sctp_dbg_objcnt_entry sctp_dbg_objcnt[] = {
 	SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_ENTRY(sock),
 	SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_ENTRY(ep),
 	SCTP_DBG_OBJCNT_ENTRY(assoc),