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/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index e153807..458018a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -803,19 +803,10 @@ ftrace_profile_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 		     size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	unsigned long val;
-	char buf[64];		/* big enough to hold a number */
 	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;
 
 	val = !!val;