Code looks more sane with this little cleanup, although both memcpy() and kfree() are supposed to cope with NULL pointer or zero length respectively. (Patch cleans up statistics-infrastructure-simplify-statistics-debugfs-write-function.patch) Patch is against 2.6.21-rc6-mm1. Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- statistic.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/lib/statistic.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/lib/statistic.c +++ linux/lib/statistic.c @@ -631,11 +631,13 @@ static ssize_t statistic_write_def(struc if (!larger) return -ENOMEM; larger[*offset + len] = '\0'; - memcpy(larger, seq_priv->w_buf, *offset); + if (seq_priv->w_buf) { + memcpy(larger, seq_priv->w_buf, *offset); + kfree(seq_priv->w_buf); + } if (copy_from_user(larger + *offset, buf, len)) return -EFAULT; *offset += len; - kfree(seq_priv->w_buf); seq_priv->w_buf = larger; seq_priv->w_offset = *offset; return len; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html