[PATCH] ecryptfs: Replace memcpy + NUL termination in ecryptfs_copy_filename

From: Thorsten Blum

Date: Sun Jan 11 2026 - 08:13:47 EST


Use kmemdup_nul() to copy 'name' instead of using memcpy() followed by a
manual NUL termination. Remove the local return variable and the goto
label to simplify the code. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 18 ++++--------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
index d49cdf7292ab..82fc5e1b6324 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c
@@ -1422,21 +1422,11 @@ ecryptfs_encrypt_filename(struct ecryptfs_filename *filename,
static int ecryptfs_copy_filename(char **copied_name, size_t *copied_name_size,
const char *name, size_t name_size)
{
- int rc = 0;
-
- (*copied_name) = kmalloc((name_size + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!(*copied_name)) {
- rc = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
- memcpy((void *)(*copied_name), (void *)name, name_size);
- (*copied_name)[(name_size)] = '\0'; /* Only for convenience
- * in printing out the
- * string in debug
- * messages */
+ (*copied_name) = kmemdup_nul(name, name_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!(*copied_name))
+ return -ENOMEM;
(*copied_name_size) = name_size;
-out:
- return rc;
+ return 0;
}

/**
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
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