For some reason, ceph_setxattr() allocates an extra byte in which a
'\0' is stored past the end of an extended attribute value. This is
not needed, and is potentially misleading, so get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <[email protected]>
---
fs/ceph/xattr.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
index 9e6734e..b98b91d 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/xattr.c
@@ -730,11 +730,9 @@ int ceph_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char
*name,
goto out;
if (val_len) {
- newval = kmalloc(val_len + 1, GFP_NOFS);
+ newval = kmemdup(value, val_len, GFP_NOFS);
if (!newval)
goto out;
- memcpy(newval, value, val_len);
- newval[val_len] = '\0';
}
xattr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ceph_inode_xattr), GFP_NOFS);
--
1.7.5.4
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