diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c
index 24ebcf3d0c9c0298739dc9b66678877c0193464d..0b1fe56eb477a1495ac92961524e369998090c9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c
@@ -420,12 +420,10 @@ static ssize_t rvu_dbg_qsize_write(struct file *filp,
 	u16 pcifunc;
 	int ret, lf;
 
-	cmd_buf = memdup_user(buffer, count + 1);
+	cmd_buf = memdup_user_nul(buffer, count);
 	if (IS_ERR(cmd_buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	cmd_buf[count] = '\0';
-
 	cmd_buf_tmp = strchr(cmd_buf, '\n');
 	if (cmd_buf_tmp) {
 		*cmd_buf_tmp = '\0';