While the original code is valid, it is not the obvious choice for the sizeof() call and in preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator variable the sizeof should be changed to the size of the variable being allocated. Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c index c7fdb12c3310..33b7fbbeda82 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/apei-base.c @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int apei_res_add(struct list_head *res_list, if (res_ins) list_add(&res_ins->list, res_list); else { - res_ins = kmalloc(sizeof(*res), GFP_KERNEL); + res_ins = kmalloc(sizeof(*res_ins), GFP_KERNEL); if (!res_ins) return -ENOMEM; res_ins->start = start; base-commit: 34e047aa16c0123bbae8e2f6df33e5ecc1f56601 -- 2.25.1