diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_pool.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_pool.c
index c6884538df..e2912cdb91 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_pool.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_pool.c
@@ -4788,8 +4788,8 @@ zpool_load_compat(const char *compat, boolean_t *features, char *report,
 		for (uint_t i = 0; i < SPA_FEATURES; i++)
 			features[i] = B_TRUE;
 
-	char err_badfile[1024] = "";
-	char err_badtoken[1024] = "";
+	char err_badfile[ZFS_MAXPROPLEN] = "";
+	char err_badtoken[ZFS_MAXPROPLEN] = "";
 
 	/*
 	 * We ignore errors from the directory open()