Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  reiserfs: fix j_last_flush_trans_id type
  fs: Mark get_filesystem_list() as __init function.
  kill vfs_stat_fd / vfs_lstat_fd
  Separate out common fstatat code into vfs_fstatat
  ecryptfs: use memdup_user()
  ncpfs: use memdup_user()
  xfs: use memdup_user()
  sysfs: use memdup_user()
  btrfs: use memdup_user()
  xattr: use memdup_user()
  autofs4: use memchr() in invalid_string()
  Documentation/filesystems: remove out of date reference to BKL being held
  Fix i_mutex vs. readdir handling in nfsd
  fs/compat_ioctl: fix build when !BLOCK
  Fix autofs_expire()
  No need for crossing to mountpoint in audit_tag_tree()
  Safer nfsd_cross_mnt()
  Touch all affected namespaces on propagation of mount
  Fix AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_REQUESTER_CMD

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
index a67fea655f4..dda3c58eefc 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
@@ -418,18 +418,13 @@ ecryptfs_miscdev_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 
 	if (count == 0)
 		goto out;
-	data = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!data) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst attempting to "
-		       "kmalloc([%zd], GFP_KERNEL)\n", __func__, count);
+
+	data = memdup_user(buf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(data)) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: memdup_user returned error [%ld]\n",
+		       __func__, PTR_ERR(data));
 		goto out;
 	}
-	rc = copy_from_user(data, buf, count);
-	if (rc) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: copy_from_user returned error [%d]\n",
-		       __func__, rc);
-		goto out_free;
-	}
 	sz = count;
 	i = 0;
 	switch (data[i++]) {