1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 972f8e61d36a..59cedfb040e7 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -243,10 +243,11 @@ static inline int open_arg(int flags, int mask)
 
 static int audit_match_perm(struct audit_context *ctx, int mask)
 {
+        unsigned n;
         if (unlikely(!ctx))
                 return 0;
 
-        unsigned n = ctx->major;
+        n = ctx->major;
         switch (audit_classify_syscall(ctx->arch, n)) {
         case 0: /* native */
                 if ((mask & AUDIT_PERM_WRITE) &&