Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/selection.c b/drivers/char/selection.c
index f29fbe9b8ed..cb8ca569896 100644
--- a/drivers/char/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/char/selection.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ int set_selection(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, struct tty_struct *t
 
         /* Allocate a new buffer before freeing the old one ... */
         multiplier = use_unicode ? 3 : 1;  /* chars can take up to 3 bytes */
-        bp = kmalloc((sel_end-sel_start)/2*multiplier+1, GFP_KERNEL);
+        bp = kmalloc(((sel_end-sel_start)/2+1)*multiplier, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!bp) {
                 printk(KERN_WARNING "selection: kmalloc() failed\n");
                 clear_selection();