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-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c10
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);