From b79982a6062da9af83bfc3065c0c230aeebff875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mattjala <124107509+mattjala@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:27:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix allocating too much memory in dset API test (#4041)

---
 test/API/H5_api_dataset_test.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/test/API/H5_api_dataset_test.c b/test/API/H5_api_dataset_test.c
index 257191f42c6..2989b7058b9 100644
--- a/test/API/H5_api_dataset_test.c
+++ b/test/API/H5_api_dataset_test.c
@@ -10047,7 +10047,7 @@ test_dataset_vlen_io(void)
             TESTING_2("write and read entire dataspace with string sequence");
             /* Set up write buffer */
             for (size_t i = 0; i < DATASET_VLEN_IO_DSET_DIMS; i++) {
-                if ((wbuf[i].p = calloc(i + 1, DATASET_VLEN_IO_STR_LEN * (i + 1))) == NULL)
+                if ((wbuf[i].p = calloc(i + 1, DATASET_VLEN_IO_STR_LEN)) == NULL)
                     PART_TEST_ERROR(rw_all_string);
 
                 for (size_t j = 0; j < i + 1; j++) {