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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-08-12 21:38:56 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-08-12 21:39:04 +0200
commitf46a6804135795f77d096ab0128f27531c7d051c (patch)
tree7cd33f69e3661327739ae4c96e5a8389e7fc912e /mm/util.c
parentb3e84ffa21f916e3354a12a7f19169c9febe96d0 (diff)
parentad41a1e0cab07c5125456e8d38e5b1ab148d04aa (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent
Merge reason: Fix upstream breakage introduced by: de5d9bf: Move list types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/types.h>. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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 f5712e8964be8..4735ea4818168 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';