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/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index b0b53b8e4c25..77575b386d97 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -156,20 +156,11 @@ stack_max_size_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 {
 	long *ptr = filp->private_data;
 	unsigned long val, flags;
-	char buf[64];
 	int ret;
 	int cpu;
 
-	if (count >= sizeof(buf))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, count))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	buf[count] = 0;
-
-	ret = strict_strtoul(buf, 10, &val);
-	if (ret < 0)
+	ret = kstrtoul_from_user(ubuf, count, 10, &val);
+	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);