diff --git a/tools/testing/radix-tree/regression1.c b/tools/testing/radix-tree/regression1.c
index a61c7bcbc72d..63f468bf8245 100644
--- a/tools/testing/radix-tree/regression1.c
+++ b/tools/testing/radix-tree/regression1.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ void regression1_test(void)
 	nr_threads = 2;
 	pthread_barrier_init(&worker_barrier, NULL, nr_threads);
 
-	threads = malloc(nr_threads * sizeof(pthread_t *));
+	threads = malloc(nr_threads * sizeof(*threads));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_threads; i++) {
 		arg = i;