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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-05-18 21:08:20 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-05-18 21:08:20 -0700 |
| commit | bb803cfbecb03a0cf8dc7e1864f18dda6631af00 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c0989693bea6f50cfa5c6bb14f52ec19668def3 /fs/xattr.c | |
| parent | 3878fb6fdbceecca20b15748f807340854220f06 (diff) | |
| parent | 511e11e396dc596825ce04d53d7f6d579404bc01 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bb803cfbecb03a0cf8dc7e1864f18dda6631af00.tar.bz2 | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
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); |