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-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/selection.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
index 7851383fbd6c..90ea1cc52b7a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
@@ -280,7 +280,8 @@ int set_selection(const struct tiocl_selection __user *sel, struct tty_struct *t
/* Allocate a new buffer before freeing the old one ... */
multiplier = use_unicode ? 3 : 1; /* chars can take up to 3 bytes */
- bp = kmalloc(((sel_end-sel_start)/2+1)*multiplier, GFP_KERNEL);
+ bp = kmalloc_array((sel_end - sel_start) / 2 + 1, multiplier,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!bp) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "selection: kmalloc() failed\n");
clear_selection();