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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2015-12-24 00:06:05 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2016-01-04 10:26:58 -0500
commit16e5c1fc36040e592128a164499bc25eb138a80f (patch)
treea080bd2eea306d5815c5a9eefb46180e2bedffb2 /kernel/trace/blktrace.c
parent7e935c7ca1e6c398f11edac5beabfc4348e3b3a4 (diff)
convert a bunch of open-coded instances of memdup_user_nul()
A _lot_ of ->write() instances were open-coding it; some are converted to memdup_user_nul(), a lot more remain... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/blktrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/blktrace.c12
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
index a990824c8604..2aeb6ffc0a1e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/blktrace.c
@@ -349,16 +349,10 @@ static ssize_t blk_msg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buffer,
if (count >= BLK_TN_MAX_MSG)
return -EINVAL;
- msg = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (msg == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(msg, buffer, count)) {
- kfree(msg);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ msg = memdup_user_nul(buffer, count);
+ if (IS_ERR(msg))
+ return PTR_ERR(msg);
- msg[count] = '\0';
bt = filp->private_data;
__trace_note_message(bt, "%s", msg);
kfree(msg);