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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/parser.c: switch match_strdup() over to use kmemdup_nul()
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:44:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180830194436.188867-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

This simplifies the code.  No change in behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
---
 lib/parser.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/parser.c b/lib/parser.c
index 3278958b472a..0142ef28f0eb 100644
--- a/lib/parser.c
+++ b/lib/parser.c
@@ -327,10 +327,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_strlcpy);
  */
 char *match_strdup(const substring_t *s)
 {
-	size_t sz = s->to - s->from + 1;
-	char *p = kmalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (p)
-		match_strlcpy(p, s, sz);
-	return p;
+	return kmemdup_nul(s->from, s->to - s->from, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_strdup);
-- 
2.19.0.rc0.228.g281dcd1b4d0-goog


             reply	other threads:[~2018-08-30 19:47 UTC|newest]

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2018-08-30 19:44 Eric Biggers [this message]
2018-08-30 23:19 ` [PATCH] lib/parser.c: switch match_strdup() over to use kmemdup_nul() Andrew Morton

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