unsigned long p9_max_pages;
        /* Scatterlist: can be too big for stack. */
        struct scatterlist sg[VIRTQUEUE_NUM];
-
-       int tag_len;
        /*
-        * tag name to identify a mount Non-null terminated
+        * tag name to identify a mount null terminated
         */
        char *tag;
 
 {
        struct virtio_chan *chan;
        struct virtio_device *vdev;
+       int tag_len;
 
        vdev = dev_to_virtio(dev);
        chan = vdev->priv;
+       tag_len = strlen(chan->tag);
 
-       memcpy(buf, chan->tag, chan->tag_len);
-       buf[chan->tag_len] = 0;
+       memcpy(buf, chan->tag, tag_len + 1);
 
-       return chan->tag_len + 1;
+       return tag_len + 1;
 }
 
 static DEVICE_ATTR(mount_tag, 0444, p9_mount_tag_show, NULL);
                err = -EINVAL;
                goto out_free_vq;
        }
-       tag = kmalloc(tag_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+       tag = kzalloc(tag_len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!tag) {
                err = -ENOMEM;
                goto out_free_vq;
        virtio_cread_bytes(vdev, offsetof(struct virtio_9p_config, tag),
                           tag, tag_len);
        chan->tag = tag;
-       chan->tag_len = tag_len;
        err = sysfs_create_file(&(vdev->dev.kobj), &dev_attr_mount_tag.attr);
        if (err) {
                goto out_free_tag;
 
        mutex_lock(&virtio_9p_lock);
        list_for_each_entry(chan, &virtio_chan_list, chan_list) {
-               if (!strncmp(devname, chan->tag, chan->tag_len) &&
-                   strlen(devname) == chan->tag_len) {
+               if (!strcmp(devname, chan->tag)) {
                        if (!chan->inuse) {
                                chan->inuse = true;
                                found = 1;