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-rw-r--r--drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c
index 4b97c20ac0b3..3f35199bc39f 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c
@@ -91,13 +91,10 @@ static int linedisp_display(struct linedisp *linedisp, const char *msg,
return 0;
}
- new_msg = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_msg = kmemdup_nul(msg, count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_msg)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(new_msg, msg, count);
- new_msg[count] = 0;
-
kfree(linedisp->message);
linedisp->message = new_msg;