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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] xattr: use memdup_user()
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:06:12 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49DC4CE4.5080306@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DC4CC0.9050805@cn.fujitsu.com>

Remove open-coded memdup_user()

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 fs/xattr.c |   10 +++-------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 197c4fc..d51b8f9 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -237,13 +237,9 @@ setxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, const void __user *value,
 	if (size) {
 		if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
 			return -E2BIG;
-		kvalue = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!kvalue)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-		if (copy_from_user(kvalue, value, size)) {
-			kfree(kvalue);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		kvalue = memdup_user(value, size);
+		if (IS_ERR(kvalue))
+			return PTR_ERR(kvalue);
 	}
 
 	error = vfs_setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);
-- 
1.5.4.rc3



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-08  7:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08  7:05 [PATCH 0/6] fs: use memdup_user() Li Zefan
2009-04-08  7:06 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-04-08  7:06 ` [PATCH 2/6] btrfs: " Li Zefan
2009-04-08  7:07 ` [PATCH 3/6] sysfs: " Li Zefan
2009-04-08  7:08 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfs: " Li Zefan
2009-04-08 13:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-08 17:31     ` Roland Dreier
2009-04-09  0:43       ` Li Zefan
2009-04-08 20:06     ` Felix Blyakher
2009-04-08  7:08 ` [PATCH 5/6] ncpfs: " Li Zefan
2009-04-08  7:09 ` [PATCH 6/6] ecryptfs: " Li Zefan

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