diff --git a/serde/src/ser/impls.rs b/serde/src/ser/impls.rs
index 8e865558..ccef4d29 100644
--- a/serde/src/ser/impls.rs
+++ b/serde/src/ser/impls.rs
@@ -736,8 +736,9 @@ impl Serialize for net::Ipv4Addr {
                 // Skip over delimiters that we initialized buf with
                 written += format_u8(*oct, &mut buf[written + 1..]) + 1;
             }
-            // We've only written ASCII bytes to the buffer, so it is valid UTF-8
-            serializer.serialize_str(unsafe { str::from_utf8_unchecked(&buf[..written]) })
+            // Safety: We've only written ASCII bytes to the buffer, so it is valid UTF-8
+            let buf = unsafe { str::from_utf8_unchecked(&buf[..written]) };
+            serializer.serialize_str(buf)
         } else {
             self.octets().serialize(serializer)
         }