Calling sprintf in a loop is not very efficient, and in any case, we already have an implementation of bin-to-hex conversion in lib/ which we might as well use. Note that original code used to nul-terminate the destination while bin2hex doesn't. That's why replace kmalloc() with kzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c index cdc75ad4438b..29dff4c6e752 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c @@ -1850,19 +1850,14 @@ nfsd4_umh_cltrack_upcall(char *cmd, char *arg, char *env0, char *env1) static char * bin_to_hex_dup(const unsigned char *src, int srclen) { - int i; - char *buf, *hex; + char *buf; /* +1 for terminating NULL */ - buf = kmalloc((srclen * 2) + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kzalloc((srclen * 2) + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return buf; - hex = buf; - for (i = 0; i < srclen; i++) { - sprintf(hex, "%2.2x", *src++); - hex += 2; - } + bin2hex(buf, src, srclen); return buf; } -- 2.23.0