From: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbur...@parallels.com>

This bug is old, but it was hidden by minimax SLAB size equal to 32 bytes.
With SLUB allocator, there are 8-bytes slabs, and this issue is revealed.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbur...@parallels.com>
---
 kernel/bc/statd.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/bc/statd.c b/kernel/bc/statd.c
index e0eac10..b0b58a4 100644
--- a/kernel/bc/statd.c
+++ b/kernel/bc/statd.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ static int ubstat_handle_notifrq(ubnotifrq_t *req)
        struct list_head *entry;
        struct task_struct *tsk_to_free;
 
-       new_notify = kmalloc(sizeof(new_notify), GFP_KERNEL);
+       new_notify = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_notify), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (new_notify == NULL)
                return -ENOMEM;
 

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