1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index b41c5d8b2789..a5e8d207a51b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3969,10 +3969,9 @@ static void addrconf_sysctl_register(struct inet6_dev *idev, struct ipv6_devconf
         struct addrconf_sysctl_table *t;
         char *dev_name = NULL;
 
-        t = kmalloc(sizeof(*t), GFP_KERNEL);
+        t = kmemdup(&addrconf_sysctl, sizeof(*t), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (t == NULL)
                 return;
-        memcpy(t, &addrconf_sysctl, sizeof(*t));
         for (i=0; t->addrconf_vars[i].data; i++) {
                 t->addrconf_vars[i].data += (char*)p - (char*)&ipv6_devconf;
                 t->addrconf_vars[i].de = NULL;