diff --git a/libswscale/utils.c b/libswscale/utils.c
index f9f4ec6cb7..63fb05ccfd 100644
--- a/libswscale/utils.c
+++ b/libswscale/utils.c
@@ -1487,9 +1487,9 @@ av_cold int sws_init_context(SwsContext *c, SwsFilter *srcFilter,
 
     /* Allocate pixbufs (we use dynamic allocation because otherwise we would
      * need to allocate several megabytes to handle all possible cases) */
-    FF_ALLOC_OR_GOTO(c, c->lumPixBuf,  c->vLumBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
-    FF_ALLOC_OR_GOTO(c, c->chrUPixBuf, c->vChrBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
-    FF_ALLOC_OR_GOTO(c, c->chrVPixBuf, c->vChrBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
+    FF_ALLOCZ_OR_GOTO(c, c->lumPixBuf,  c->vLumBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
+    FF_ALLOCZ_OR_GOTO(c, c->chrUPixBuf, c->vChrBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
+    FF_ALLOCZ_OR_GOTO(c, c->chrVPixBuf, c->vChrBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
     if (CONFIG_SWSCALE_ALPHA && isALPHA(c->srcFormat) && isALPHA(c->dstFormat))
         FF_ALLOCZ_OR_GOTO(c, c->alpPixBuf, c->vLumBufSize * 3 * sizeof(int16_t *), fail);
     /* Note we need at least one pixel more at the end because of the MMX code