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-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c
index 5fe39241b635..3f014f96f9e0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c
@@ -125,13 +125,12 @@ static int read_efi_var(const char *name, unsigned long *size,
* temporary buffer. Now allocate a correctly sized
* buffer.
*/
- data = kmalloc(temp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ data = kmemdup(temp_buffer, temp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!data) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto fail;
}
- memcpy(data, temp_buffer, temp_size);
*size = temp_size;
*return_data = data;