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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-24 10:11:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-24 10:11:23 +0200 |
| commit | 416dfdcdb894432547ead4fcb9fa6a36b396059e (patch) | |
| tree | 8033fdda07397a59c5fa98c88927040906ce6c1a /fs/xattr.c | |
| parent | 56449f437add737a1e5e1cb7e00f63ac8ead1938 (diff) | |
| parent | 091069740304c979f957ceacec39c461d0192158 (diff) | |
| download | linux-416dfdcdb894432547ead4fcb9fa6a36b396059e.tar.bz2 | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
here.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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 197c4fcac032..d51b8f9db921 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); |