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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/virtio_net.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 4a105006ca63..2cea022e6e6e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -1236,10 +1236,9 @@ static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p)
struct sockaddr *addr;
struct scatterlist sg;
- addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL);
+ addr = kmemdup(p, sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!addr)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(addr, p, sizeof(*addr));
ret = eth_prepare_mac_addr_change(dev, addr);
if (ret)