Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> sizeof(viafb_gamma_table) is just the size of the pointer. This is changed to the size used when calling kmalloc to initialize the pointer. A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ expression *x; expression f; type T; @@ *f(…,(T)x,…) // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall …