tracing: Convert to kstrtoul_from_user

This patch replaces the code for getting an unsigned long from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307476707-14762-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 725153d6cf73..f00ede314eb6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3980,20 +3980,11 @@ rb_simple_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
                 size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 {
         unsigned long *p = filp->private_data;
-        char buf[64];
         unsigned long val;
         int ret;
 
-        if (cnt >= sizeof(buf))
-                return -EINVAL;
-
-        if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt))
-                return -EFAULT;
-
-        buf[cnt] = 0;
-
-        ret = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &val);
-        if (ret < 0)
+        ret = kstrtoul_from_user(ubuf, cnt, 10, &val);
+        if (ret)
                 return ret;
 
         if (val)