1 files changed, 18 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/net/9p/client.c b/net/9p/client.c
index 8eb75425e6e6..addc116cecf0 100644
--- a/net/9p/client.c
+++ b/net/9p/client.c
@@ -562,36 +562,19 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
 
         if (!p9_is_proto_dotl(c)) {
                 /* Error is reported in string format */
-                uint16_t len;
-                /* 7 = header size for RERROR, 2 is the size of string len; */
-                int inline_len = in_hdrlen - (7 + 2);
+                int len;
+                /* 7 = header size for RERROR; */
+                int inline_len = in_hdrlen - 7;
 
-                /* Read the size of error string */
-                err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "w", &len);
-                if (err)
-                        goto out_err;
-
-                ename = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
-                if (!ename) {
-                        err = -ENOMEM;
+                len =  req->rc->size - req->rc->offset;
+                if (len > (P9_ZC_HDR_SZ - 7)) {
+                        err = -EFAULT;
                         goto out_err;
                 }
-                if (len <= inline_len) {
-                        /* We have error in protocol buffer itself */
-                        if (pdu_read(req->rc, ename, len)) {
-                                err = -EFAULT;
-                                goto out_free;
 
-                        }
-                } else {
-                        /*
-                         *  Part of the data is in user space buffer.
-                         */
-                        if (pdu_read(req->rc, ename, inline_len)) {
-                                err = -EFAULT;
-                                goto out_free;
-
-                        }
+                ename = &req->rc->sdata[req->rc->offset];
+                if (len > inline_len) {
+                        /* We have error in external buffer */
                         if (kern_buf) {
                                 memcpy(ename + inline_len, uidata,
                                        len - inline_len);
@@ -600,19 +583,19 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
                                                      uidata, len - inline_len);
                                 if (err) {
                                         err = -EFAULT;
-                                        goto out_free;
+                                        goto out_err;
                                 }
                         }
                 }
-                ename[len] = 0;
-                if (p9_is_proto_dotu(c)) {
-                        /* For dotu we also have error code */
-                        err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc,
-                                          c->proto_version, "d", &ecode);
-                        if (err)
-                                goto out_free;
+                ename = NULL;
+                err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, c->proto_version, "s?d",
+                                  &ename, &ecode);
+                if (err)
+                        goto out_err;
+
+                if (p9_is_proto_dotu(c))
                         err = -ecode;
-                }
+
                 if (!err || !IS_ERR_VALUE(err)) {
                         err = p9_errstr2errno(ename, strlen(ename));
 
@@ -628,8 +611,6 @@ static int p9_check_zc_errors(struct p9_client *c, struct p9_req_t *req,
         }
         return err;
 
-out_free:
-        kfree(ename);
 out_err:
         p9_debug(P9_DEBUG_ERROR, "couldn't parse error%d\n", err);
         return err;