1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
index a76f697303d9..bfff735091f5 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
@@ -730,11 +730,9 @@ int ceph_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
                 goto out;
 
         if (val_len) {
-                newval = kmalloc(val_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
+                newval = kmemdup(value, val_len, GFP_NOFS);
                 if (!newval)
                         goto out;
-                memcpy(newval, value, val_len);
-                newval[val_len] = '\0';
         }
 
         xattr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ceph_inode_xattr), GFP_NOFS);