diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index a3bf75dc7c88..a8336582f60b 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -959,13 +959,13 @@ The preferred form for allocating an array is the following:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
-	p = kmalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
+	p = kmalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
 
 The preferred form for allocating a zeroed array is the following:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
-	p = kzalloc_objs(*ptr, n, ...);
+	p = kzalloc_objs(*p, n, ...);
 
 Both forms check for overflow on the allocation size n * sizeof(...),
 and return NULL if that occurred.