diff --git a/core/bytes/bytes.odin b/core/bytes/bytes.odin
index 1e83b93c8..1bf11e0b0 100644
--- a/core/bytes/bytes.odin
+++ b/core/bytes/bytes.odin
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ import "core:unicode"
 import "core:unicode/utf8"
 
 clone :: proc(s: []byte, allocator := context.allocator, loc := #caller_location) -> []byte {
-	c := make([]byte, len(s)+1, allocator, loc)
+	c := make([]byte, len(s), allocator, loc)
 	copy(c, s)
-	c[len(s)] = 0
 	return c[:len(s)]
 }