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authorStefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>2011-08-03 16:44:20 +0200
committerHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2011-08-03 16:44:19 +0200
commite4258d55bff06780cd424c671b576a90acc1592f (patch)
treea8a7da35bff7d9379678ba8f59f512f12681f768 /drivers/s390/block
parent7dd6b3343fdc190712d1620ee8848d25c4c77c33 (diff)
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[S390] dasd: use vmalloc for statistics input buffer
The size of the buffer that is used to store DASD statistics input strings depends on the user input. If the input string is to large, the write operation could fail with -ENOMEM. To avoid this, use vmalloc instead of kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/s390/block')
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/block/dasd.c9
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
index 432444a..a1d3ddb 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <asm/ccwdev.h>
#include <asm/ebcdic.h>
@@ -888,11 +889,11 @@ char *dasd_get_user_string(const char __user *user_buf, size_t user_len)
{
char *buffer;
- buffer = kmalloc(user_len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = vmalloc(user_len + 1);
if (buffer == NULL)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
if (copy_from_user(buffer, user_buf, user_len) != 0) {
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
}
/* got the string, now strip linefeed. */
@@ -930,7 +931,7 @@ static ssize_t dasd_stats_write(struct file *file,
dasd_profile_off(prof);
} else
rc = -EINVAL;
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return rc;
}
@@ -1042,7 +1043,7 @@ static ssize_t dasd_stats_global_write(struct file *file,
dasd_global_profile_level = DASD_PROFILE_OFF;
} else
rc = -EINVAL;
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return rc;
}
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c
index 6c3c536..e12989f 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_proc.c
@@ -312,14 +312,14 @@ static ssize_t dasd_stats_proc_write(struct file *file,
pr_info("The statistics have been reset\n");
} else
goto out_parse_error;
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return user_len;
out_parse_error:
rc = -EINVAL;
pr_warning("%s is not a supported value for /proc/dasd/statistics\n",
str);
out_error:
- kfree(buffer);
+ vfree(buffer);
return rc;
#else
pr_warning("/proc/dasd/statistics: is not activated in this kernel\n");