diff --git a/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl_snapshot.c b/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl_snapshot.c
index 1caa673db6ff..7de43dd27ffe 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl_snapshot.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/msm/kgsl_snapshot.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2012-2016, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+/* Copyright (c) 2012-2017, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
@@ -156,8 +156,10 @@ static size_t snapshot_os(struct kgsl_device *device,
 	header->osid = KGSL_SNAPSHOT_OS_LINUX_V3;
 
 	/* Get the kernel build information */
-	strlcpy(header->release, utsname()->release, sizeof(header->release));
-	strlcpy(header->version, utsname()->version, sizeof(header->version));
+	strlcpy(header->release, init_utsname()->release,
+			sizeof(header->release));
+	strlcpy(header->version, init_utsname()->version,
+			sizeof(header->version));
 
 	/* Get the Unix time for the timestamp */
 	header->seconds = get_seconds();