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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-06-07 12:22:15 +0200 |
| commit | 5f4457a4f62cc9d78e04c0eb12ff0540899aad89 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b973d527ea6b2ae31e08da0746b4965a3c5a6d8 /fs/xattr.c | |
| parent | 9b94b3a19b13e094c10f65f24bc358f6ffe4eacd (diff) | |
| parent | b87297fb405ef13cac375f202d114323b076a56d (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/cpu
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xattr.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index 197c4fcac03..d51b8f9db92 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); |