[PATCH] fs/orangefs: Replace kzalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
From: Thorsten Blum
Date: Thu Sep 18 2025 - 11:08:33 EST
Replace kzalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul() to
simplify and improve orangefs_debug_write(). Allocate only 'count' bytes
instead of the maximum size ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN, and set 'buf'
to NULL to ensure kfree(buf) still works.
No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c b/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c
index 1c375fb65018..79267b3419f2 100644
--- a/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c
+++ b/fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c
@@ -440,14 +440,13 @@ static ssize_t orangefs_debug_write(struct file *file,
count = ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN;
}
- buf = kzalloc(ORANGEFS_MAX_DEBUG_STRING_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buf)
- goto out;
-
- if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, count - 1)) {
+ buf = memdup_user_nul(ubuf, count - 1);
+ if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
gossip_debug(GOSSIP_DEBUGFS_DEBUG,
- "%s: copy_from_user failed!\n",
+ "%s: memdup_user_nul failed!\n",
__func__);
+ rc = PTR_ERR(buf);
+ buf = NULL;
goto out;
}
--
2.51.0