diff --git a/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c b/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
index a9f4279fbd69..a02ca7298385 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ tcindex_set_parms(struct net *net, struct tcf_proto *tp, unsigned long base,
 	 * allocate new tcindex data and RCU assign it onto root. Keeping
 	 * perfect hash and hash pointers from old data.
 	 */
-	cp = kzalloc(sizeof(cp), GFP_KERNEL);
+	cp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cp), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cp)
 		return -ENOMEM;