diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
index 70e919960acb693de11c73df6240d6d03318e12d..6e12a6ba5f79daabc1bc455a3a4db464b240c00a 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
@@ -716,10 +716,9 @@ int ceph_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 
 	/* preallocate memory for xattr name, value, index node */
 	err = -ENOMEM;
-	newname = kmalloc(name_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
+	newname = kmemdup(name, name_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!newname)
 		goto out;
-	memcpy(newname, name, name_len + 1);
 
 	if (val_len) {
 		newval = kmalloc(val_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);