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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 1e703f8ebad4..6f6597b3966b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -541,10 +541,9 @@ static ssize_t nvram_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
time->tv_sec = be64_to_cpu(oops_hdr->timestamp);
time->tv_nsec = 0;
}
- *buf = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ *buf = kmemdup(buff + hdr_size, length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (*buf == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(*buf, buff + hdr_size, length);
kfree(buff);
if (err_type == ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ)