diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs
index 50c286c5cee8..ac27e86c601c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_panic_qr.rs
@@ -968,7 +968,7 @@ fn draw_all(&mut self, data: impl Iterator<Item = u8>) {
         // nul-terminated string.
         let url_cstr: &CStr = unsafe { CStr::from_char_ptr(url) };
         let segments = &[
-            &Segment::Binary(url_cstr.as_bytes()),
+            &Segment::Binary(url_cstr.to_bytes()),
             &Segment::Numeric(&data_slice[0..data_len]),
         ];
         match EncodedMsg::new(segments, tmp_slice) {