diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-trigger.c b/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
index 35ec80ba444f..3c8f6ffab584 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/industrialio-trigger.c
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ struct iio_trigger *iio_trigger_find_by_name(const char *name, size_t len)
 	struct iio_trigger *trig;
 	bool found = false;
 
+	if (len && name[len - 1] == '\n')
+		len--;
+
 	mutex_lock(&iio_trigger_list_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry(trig, &iio_trigger_list, list) {
 		if (strncmp(trig->name, name, len) == 0) {