diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/policy_unpack.h b/security/apparmor/include/policy_unpack.h
index be6cd69ac319..8db4ab759e80 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/policy_unpack.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/policy_unpack.h
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ struct aa_loaddata {
 	int abi;
 	unsigned char *hash;
 
-	char data[];
+	char *data;
 };
 
 int aa_unpack(struct aa_loaddata *udata, struct list_head *lh, const char **ns);
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
index 59a1a25b7d43..ece0c246cfe6 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
@@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ static void do_loaddata_free(struct work_struct *work)
 	}
 
 	kzfree(d->hash);
-	kfree(d->name);
-	kvfree(d);
+	kzfree(d->name);
+	kvfree(d->data);
+	kzfree(d);
 }
 
 void aa_loaddata_kref(struct kref *kref)
@@ -180,10 +181,16 @@ void aa_loaddata_kref(struct kref *kref)
 
 struct aa_loaddata *aa_loaddata_alloc(size_t size)
 {
-	struct aa_loaddata *d = kvzalloc(sizeof(*d) + size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct aa_loaddata *d;
 
+	d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (d == NULL)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	d->data = kvzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!d->data) {
+		kfree(d);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	}
 	kref_init(&d->count);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&d->list);