From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The size argument to alloc_bootmem should be the size of desired structure, not the pointer to it. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @expression@ expression *x; @@ x = <+... -sizeof(x) +sizeof(*x) ...+>// </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c b/arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c index 2f0b86b..54a0868 100644 --- a/arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c +++ b/arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c @@ -780,7 +780,8 @@ static int iss_net_setup(char *str) return 1; } - if ((new = alloc_bootmem(sizeof new)) == NULL) { + new = alloc_bootmem(sizeof(*new)); + if (new == NULL) { printk("Alloc_bootmem failed\n"); return 1; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html