1 files changed, 3 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 072566dd0caf..132dbcdef6ec 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -1882,44 +1882,10 @@ out_alloc:
         n = audit_alloc_name(context, AUDIT_TYPE_UNKNOWN);
         if (!n)
                 return;
-        /* unfortunately, while we may have a path name to record with the
-         * inode, we can't always rely on the string lasting until the end of
-         * the syscall so we need to create our own copy, it may fail due to
-         * memory allocation issues, but we do our best */
-        if (name) {
-                /* we can't use getname_kernel() due to size limits */
-                size_t len = strlen(name->name) + 1;
-                struct filename *new = __getname();
-
-                if (unlikely(!new))
-                        goto out;
+        if (name)
+                /* no need to set ->name_put as the original will cleanup */
+                n->name = name;
 
-                if (len <= (PATH_MAX - sizeof(*new))) {
-                        new->name = (char *)(new) + sizeof(*new);
-                        new->separate = false;
-                } else if (len <= PATH_MAX) {
-                        /* this looks odd, but is due to final_putname() */
-                        struct filename *new2;
-
-                        new2 = kmalloc(sizeof(*new2), GFP_KERNEL);
-                        if (unlikely(!new2)) {
-                                __putname(new);
-                                goto out;
-                        }
-                        new2->name = (char *)new;
-                        new2->separate = true;
-                        new = new2;
-                } else {
-                        /* we should never get here, but let's be safe */
-                        __putname(new);
-                        goto out;
-                }
-                strlcpy((char *)new->name, name->name, len);
-                new->uptr = NULL;
-                new->aname = n;
-                n->name = new;
-                n->name_put = true;
-        }
 out:
         if (parent) {
                 n->name_len = n->name ? parent_len(n->name->name) : AUDIT_NAME_FULL;