found with coccicheck sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of the pointer The semantic patch that makes this output is available in scripts/coccinelle/misc/noderef.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c b/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c index c7a5f97..97ad645 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/iio_hwmon.c @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int iio_hwmon_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) while (st->channels[st->num_channels].indio_dev) st->num_channels++; - st->attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(st->attrs) * (st->num_channels + 1), + st->attrs = kzalloc(sizeof(*st->attrs) * (st->num_channels + 1), GFP_KERNEL); if (st->attrs == NULL) { ret = -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.8.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html