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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 4d439d2fcfd6..4445fa164a2d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -2037,12 +2037,11 @@ int ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(ipmi_smi_t smi, char *name,
entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!entry)
return -ENOMEM;
- entry->name = kmalloc(strlen(name)+1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ entry->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!entry->name) {
kfree(entry);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- strcpy(entry->name, name);
file = proc_create_data(name, 0, smi->proc_dir, proc_ops, data);
if (!file) {