1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/net/sched/act_simple.c b/net/sched/act_simple.c
index 901571a67707..5fe80854ca91 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_simple.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_simple.c
@@ -71,11 +71,10 @@ static int tcf_simp_release(struct tcf_defact *d, int bind)
 
 static int alloc_defdata(struct tcf_defact *d, u32 datalen, void *defdata)
 {
-        d->tcfd_defdata = kmalloc(datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
+        d->tcfd_defdata = kmemdup(defdata, datalen, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (unlikely(!d->tcfd_defdata))
                 return -ENOMEM;
         d->tcfd_datalen = datalen;
-        memcpy(d->tcfd_defdata, defdata, datalen);
         return 0;
 }