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-rw-r--r--drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
index 25ab61dae126..184e0b35744f 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
@@ -276,7 +276,11 @@ static ssize_t lirc_transmit(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (ret < 0)
goto out_kfree_raw;
- count = ret;
+ /* drop trailing space */
+ if (!(ret % 2))
+ count = ret - 1;
+ else
+ count = ret;
txbuf = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(unsigned int), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!txbuf) {