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-rw-r--r--net/core/ethtool.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/ethtool.c b/net/core/ethtool.c
index b495ab1797fa..29edf74846fc 100644
--- a/net/core/ethtool.c
+++ b/net/core/ethtool.c
@@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ static int ethtool_get_strings(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr)
gstrings.len = ret;
- data = kmalloc(gstrings.len * ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
+ data = kcalloc(gstrings.len, ETH_GSTRING_LEN, GFP_USER);
if (!data)
return -ENOMEM;