diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
index d3721158fc7f..6997b16b4dcd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorhba/visorhba_main.c
@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static void
 do_scsi_nolinuxstat(struct uiscmdrsp *cmdrsp, struct scsi_cmnd *scsicmd)
 {
 	struct scsi_device *scsidev;
-	unsigned char buf[36];
+	unsigned char *buf;
 	struct scatterlist *sg;
 	unsigned int i;
 	char *this_page;
@@ -854,6 +854,10 @@ do_scsi_nolinuxstat(struct uiscmdrsp *cmdrsp, struct scsi_cmnd *scsicmd)
 		if (cmdrsp->scsi.no_disk_result == 0)
 			return;
 
+		buf = kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 36, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!buf)
+			return;
+
 		/* Linux scsi code wants a device at Lun 0
 		 * to issue report luns, but we don't want
 		 * a disk there so we'll present a processor
@@ -865,6 +869,7 @@ do_scsi_nolinuxstat(struct uiscmdrsp *cmdrsp, struct scsi_cmnd *scsicmd)
 		if (scsi_sg_count(scsicmd) == 0) {
 			memcpy(scsi_sglist(scsicmd), buf,
 			       cmdrsp->scsi.bufflen);
+			kfree(buf);
 			return;
 		}
 
@@ -876,6 +881,7 @@ do_scsi_nolinuxstat(struct uiscmdrsp *cmdrsp, struct scsi_cmnd *scsicmd)
 			memcpy(this_page, buf + bufind, sg[i].length);
 			kunmap_atomic(this_page_orig);
 		}
+		kfree(buf);
 	} else {
 		devdata = (struct visorhba_devdata *)scsidev->host->hostdata;
 		for_each_vdisk_match(vdisk, devdata, scsidev) {