The quilt patch titled
Subject: fail_function: switch to memdup_user_nul() helper
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fail_function-switch-to-memdup_user_nul-helper.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fail_function: switch to memdup_user_nul() helper
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:33:35 +0800
Use memdup_user_nul() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220826073337.2085798-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fail_function.c | 15 +++++----------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/fail_function.c~fail_function-switch-to-memdup_user_nul-helper
+++ a/kernel/fail_function.c
@@ -247,15 +247,11 @@ static ssize_t fei_write(struct file *fi
/* cut off if it is too long */
if (count > KSYM_NAME_LEN)
count = KSYM_NAME_LEN;
- buf = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buf)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count)) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto out_free;
- }
- buf[count] = '\0';
+
+ buf = memdup_user_nul(buffer, count);
+ if (IS_ERR(buf))
+ return PTR_ERR(buf);
+
sym = strstrip(buf);
mutex_lock(&fei_lock);
@@ -308,7 +304,6 @@ static ssize_t fei_write(struct file *fi
}
out:
mutex_unlock(&fei_lock);
-out_free:
kfree(buf);
return ret;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx are
