1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
index 0227b45ef00a..15e9505aa35f 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c
@@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ int
 cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
                  const struct nls_table *cp, int mapChars)
 {
-        int i, j, charlen;
+        int i, charlen;
+        int j = 0;
         char src_char;
         __le16 dst_char;
         wchar_t tmp;
@@ -298,12 +299,11 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
         if (!mapChars)
                 return cifs_strtoUTF16(target, source, PATH_MAX, cp);
 
-        for (i = 0, j = 0; i < srclen; j++) {
+        for (i = 0; i < srclen; j++) {
                 src_char = source[i];
                 charlen = 1;
                 switch (src_char) {
                 case 0:
-                        put_unaligned(0, &target[j]);
                         goto ctoUTF16_out;
                 case ':':
                         dst_char = cpu_to_le16(UNI_COLON);
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const char *source, int srclen,
         }
 
 ctoUTF16_out:
+        put_unaligned(0, &target[j]); /* Null terminate target unicode string */
         return j;
 }