diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 88f261d2501a..00ccbd850b6d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 402ab352c2c00ba8f90c724565f8cf31210d99cf
+refs/heads/master: a9c88f2ebc1a5937915cb3b89c9f03894134f39a
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c b/trunk/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
index 3bdbb6115702..a8aab9cf26b9 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
@@ -1168,12 +1168,11 @@ static int crypt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
 	if (ivmode && cc->iv_gen_ops) {
 		if (ivopts)
 			*(ivopts - 1) = ':';
-		cc->iv_mode = kmalloc(strlen(ivmode) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+		cc->iv_mode = kstrdup(ivmode, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!cc->iv_mode) {
 			ti->error = "Error kmallocing iv_mode string";
 			goto bad_ivmode_string;
 		}
-		strcpy(cc->iv_mode, ivmode);
 	} else
 		cc->iv_mode = NULL;