Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core

Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 93e0c0281d45..9345806c8853 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -157,14 +157,9 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
 			count = size - offs;
 	}
 
-	temp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!temp)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	if (copy_from_user(temp, userbuf, count)) {
-		count = -EFAULT;
-		goto out_free;
-	}
+	temp = memdup_user(userbuf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(temp))
+		return PTR_ERR(temp);
 
 	mutex_lock(&bb->mutex);
 
@@ -176,8 +171,6 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
 	if (count > 0)
 		*off = offs + count;
 
-out_free:
-	kfree(temp);
 	return count;
 }