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-rw-r--r--drivers/of/device.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/of/device.c b/drivers/of/device.c
index 955bfb3d1a83..c91bb5899256 100644
--- a/drivers/of/device.c
+++ b/drivers/of/device.c
@@ -297,12 +297,15 @@ int of_device_request_module(struct device *dev)
if (size < 0)
return size;
- str = kmalloc(size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ /* Reserve an additional byte for the trailing '\0' */
+ size++;
+
+ str = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!str)
return -ENOMEM;
of_device_get_modalias(dev, str, size);
- str[size] = '\0';
+ str[size - 1] = '\0';
ret = request_module(str);
kfree(str);