1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 432355353..adcedf615 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #include "libbb.h"
 #include "unarchive.h"
 
+#define block_buf bb_common_bufsiz1
+
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_TAR_CREATE
 
 /* Tar file constants  */
@@ -475,8 +477,8 @@ static int writeFileToTarball(const char *fileName, struct stat *statbuf,
                 /* Pad the file up to the tar block size */
                 /* (a few tricks here in the name of code size) */
                 readSize = (-(int)statbuf->st_size) & (TAR_BLOCK_SIZE-1);
-                memset(bb_common_bufsiz1, 0, readSize);
-                xwrite(tbInfo->tarFd, bb_common_bufsiz1, readSize);
+                memset(block_buf, 0, readSize);
+                xwrite(tbInfo->tarFd, block_buf, readSize);
         }
 
         return TRUE;
@@ -570,8 +572,8 @@ static int writeTarFile(const int tar_fd, const int verboseFlag,
                 include = include->link;
         }
         /* Write two empty blocks to the end of the archive */
-        memset(bb_common_bufsiz1, 0, 2*TAR_BLOCK_SIZE);
-        xwrite(tbInfo.tarFd, bb_common_bufsiz1, 2*TAR_BLOCK_SIZE);
+        memset(block_buf, 0, 2*TAR_BLOCK_SIZE);
+        xwrite(tbInfo.tarFd, block_buf, 2*TAR_BLOCK_SIZE);
 
         /* To be pedantically correct, we would check if the tarball
          * is smaller than 20 tar blocks, and pad it if it was smaller,