diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 3dff5037943e..af0ee691520a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #include <linux/kstrtox.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/kdev_t.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
@@ -28,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/netdevice.h>
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
+#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
 #include <linux/swiotlb.h>
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
 #include <linux/dma-map-ops.h> /* for dma_default_coherent */
@@ -3910,10 +3910,9 @@ const char *device_get_devnode(const struct device *dev,
 		return dev_name(dev);
 
 	/* replace '!' in the name with '/' */
-	s = kstrdup(dev_name(dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	s = kstrdup_and_replace(dev_name(dev), '!', '/', GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!s)
 		return NULL;
-	strreplace(s, '!', '/');
 	return *tmp = s;
 }