diff --git a/http-push.c b/http-push.c
index 6c3cc1725a9461..952f8ede49daf4 100644
--- a/http-push.c
+++ b/http-push.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static void curl_setup_http(CURL *curl, const char *url,
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READFUNCTION, fread_buffer);
 #ifndef NO_CURL_IOCTL
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLFUNCTION, ioctl_buffer);
-	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, &buffer);
+	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA, buffer);
 #endif
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_fn);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, 0);