1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/tape_std.c b/drivers/s390/char/tape_std.c
index 1a9420ba518d..750354ad16e5 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/tape_std.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/tape_std.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ tape_std_assign(struct tape_device *device)
          * to another host (actually this shouldn't happen but it does).
          * So we set up a timeout for this call.
          */
-        init_timer(&timeout);
+        init_timer_on_stack(&timeout);
         timeout.function = tape_std_assign_timeout;
         timeout.data     = (unsigned long) request;
         timeout.expires  = jiffies + 2 * HZ;