diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index 4ab2b50ee38f..641ca9581ecf 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -892,9 +892,12 @@ void *devm_krealloc(struct device *dev, void *ptr, size_t new_size, gfp_t gfp)
 	/*
 	 * Otherwise: allocate new, larger chunk. We need to allocate before
 	 * taking the lock as most probably the caller uses GFP_KERNEL.
+	 * alloc_dr() will call check_dr_size() to reserve extra memory
+	 * for struct devres automatically, so size @new_size user request
+	 * is delivered to it directly as devm_kmalloc() does.
 	 */
 	new_dr = alloc_dr(devm_kmalloc_release,
-			  total_new_size, gfp, dev_to_node(dev));
+			  new_size, gfp, dev_to_node(dev));
 	if (!new_dr)
 		return NULL;