Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

Conflicts:
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 197c4fcac032..d51b8f9db921 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -237,13 +237,9 @@ setxattr(struct dentry *d, const char __user *name, const void __user *value,
         if (size) {
                 if (size > XATTR_SIZE_MAX)
                         return -E2BIG;
-                kvalue = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-                if (!kvalue)
-                        return -ENOMEM;
-                if (copy_from_user(kvalue, value, size)) {
-                        kfree(kvalue);
-                        return -EFAULT;
-                }
+                kvalue = memdup_user(value, size);
+                if (IS_ERR(kvalue))
+                        return PTR_ERR(kvalue);
         }
 
         error = vfs_setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);