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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400
commit95ee46aa8698f2000647dfb362400fadbb5807cf (patch)
treee5a05c7297f997e191c73091934e42e3195c0e40 /mm/util.c
parentcfa806f059801dbe7e435745eb2e187c8bfe1e7f (diff)
parent92fa5bd9a946b6e7aab6764e7312e4e3d9bed295 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts: drivers/acpi/debug.c Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index f5712e8964b..4735ea48181 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -225,15 +225,10 @@ char *strndup_user(const char __user *s, long n)
if (length > n)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- p = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = memdup_user(s, length);
- if (!p)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
- if (copy_from_user(p, s, length)) {
- kfree(p);
- return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(p))
+ return p;
p[length - 1] = '\0';