A few lines above the patch we have: char *srec; srec = kmalloc(SCIOC_SRECSIZE, GFP_KERNEL); sizeof pointer is probably not meant here. Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>