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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2014-12-15 12:57:00 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2015-02-06 09:32:56 +1100
commitf4ad3d38d49dc0c4c911e31d8b884d5b74362b6e (patch)
treec07652a37bb95b29476dce58cca51c34920d76e7 /drivers/md
parent758bfc8abfbc26c196a53c52d52d251f20226a5c (diff)
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md: remove unnecessary 'buf' from get_bitmap_file.
'buf' is only used because d_path fills from the end of the buffer instead of from the start. We don't need a separate buf to handle that, we just need to use memmove() to move the string to the start. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c12
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 5438834bf54d..bddecc01c333 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5502,7 +5502,7 @@ static int get_array_info(struct mddev *mddev, void __user *arg)
static int get_bitmap_file(struct mddev *mddev, void __user * arg)
{
mdu_bitmap_file_t *file = NULL; /* too big for stack allocation */
- char *ptr, *buf = NULL;
+ char *ptr;
int err = -ENOMEM;
file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO);
@@ -5516,23 +5516,19 @@ static int get_bitmap_file(struct mddev *mddev, void __user * arg)
goto copy_out;
}
- buf = kmalloc(sizeof(file->pathname), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buf)
- goto out;
-
ptr = d_path(&mddev->bitmap->storage.file->f_path,
- buf, sizeof(file->pathname));
+ file->pathname, sizeof(file->pathname));
if (IS_ERR(ptr))
goto out;
- strcpy(file->pathname, ptr);
+ memmove(file->pathname, ptr,
+ sizeof(file->pathname)-(ptr-file->pathname));
copy_out:
err = 0;
if (copy_to_user(arg, file, sizeof(*file)))
err = -EFAULT;
out:
- kfree(buf);
kfree(file);
return err;
}