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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-10-26 08:45:53 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-10-26 08:45:53 +0200
commit45965252a29afc8ef6f58938077fe30f86081bf0 (patch)
tree25b61fd860652fd875aedbda93be2e05262f7ed3
parent1177384179416c7136e1348f07609e0da1ae6b91 (diff)
Revert "virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()"
This reverts commit 9db81eca10ba2d84177fa076704db3a5d76863c3. A dependant patch on this one needs to be reverted, so this one also needs to be reverted at this point in time. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/208f7a41-a9fa-630c-cb44-c37c503f3a72@kernel.org Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/virtio_console.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 4ed3ffb1d479..7eaf303a7a86 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -1117,6 +1117,8 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
{
struct port *port;
struct scatterlist sg[1];
+ void *data;
+ int ret;
if (unlikely(early_put_chars))
return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
@@ -1125,8 +1127,14 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
if (!port)
return -EPIPE;
- sg_init_one(sg, buf, count);
- return __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, (void *)buf, false);
+ data = kmemdup(buf, count, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!data)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ sg_init_one(sg, data, count);
+ ret = __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, data, false);
+ kfree(data);
+ return ret;
}
/*