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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/selection.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/selection.c b/drivers/char/selection.c index f29fbe9b8ed7..cb8ca5698963 100644 --- a/drivers/char/selection.c +++ b/drivers/char/selection.c @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ 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*multiplier+1, GFP_KERNEL); + bp = kmalloc(((sel_end-sel_start)/2+1)*multiplier, GFP_KERNEL); if (!bp) { printk(KERN_WARNING "selection: kmalloc() failed\n"); clear_selection(); |