diff --git a/src/networking.c b/src/networking.c
index c24a95019b..6751f5c7b8 100644
--- a/src/networking.c
+++ b/src/networking.c
@@ -2669,6 +2669,8 @@ void processInlineBuffer(client *c) {
 
     /* Create an Object for all arguments. */
     for (c->argc = 0, j = 0; j < argc; j++) {
+        /* Strings returned from sdssplitargs() may have unused capacity that we can trim. */
+        argv[j] = sdsRemoveFreeSpace(argv[j], 1);
         c->argv[c->argc] = createObject(OBJ_STRING, argv[j]);
         c->argc++;
         c->argv_len_sum += sdslen(argv[j]);