The first argument to kmalloc() is the size, the second is flags. pmcraid_chr_ioctl() gets this wrong and swaps the arguments. This patch corrects the mistake. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) compile tested only. diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c index d079f9a..da19bdf 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c @@ -4103,7 +4103,7 @@ static long pmcraid_chr_ioctl( struct pmcraid_ioctl_header *hdr = NULL; int retval = -ENOTTY; - hdr = kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL, sizeof(struct pmcraid_ioctl_header)); + hdr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pmcraid_ioctl_header), GFP_KERNEL); if (!hdr) { pmcraid_err("faile to allocate memory for ioctl header\n"); -- 1.7.7 -- Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.chaosbits.net/ Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html