The wl pointer was initialized as a pointer to a struct wilc and assigned to a piece of memory the size of the pointer. It should be the size of struct wilc. Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c index 4f93c11..d1853f6 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c @@ -1260,7 +1260,7 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc, struct device *dev, int io_type, sema_init(&close_exit_sync, 0); - wl = kzalloc(sizeof(*wl), GFP_KERNEL); + wl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct wilc), GFP_KERNEL); if (!wl) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel