1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
index 70e919960acb..6e12a6ba5f79 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
@@ -716,10 +716,9 @@ int ceph_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 
         /* preallocate memory for xattr name, value, index node */
         err = -ENOMEM;
-        newname = kmalloc(name_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
+        newname = kmemdup(name, name_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
         if (!newname)
                 goto out;
-        memcpy(newname, name, name_len + 1);
 
         if (val_len) {
                 newval = kmalloc(val_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);