Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (123 commits)
  perf: Remove the nmi parameter from the oprofile_perf backend
  x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function
  perf: Remove perf_event_attr::type check
  x86, perf: P4 PMU - Fix typos in comments and style cleanup
  perf tools: Make test use the preset debugfs path
  perf tools: Add automated tests for events parsing
  perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function
  perf script: Fix display of IP address for non-callchain path
  perf tools: Fix endian conversion reading event attr from file header
  perf tools: Add missing 'node' alias to the hw_cache[] array
  perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules
  perf probe: Add probed module in front of function
  perf probe: Introduce debuginfo to encapsulate dwarf information
  perf-probe: Move dwarf library routines to dwarf-aux.{c, h}
  perf probe: Remove redundant dwarf functions
  perf probe: Move strtailcmp to string.c
  perf probe: Rename DIE_FIND_CB_FOUND to DIE_FIND_CB_END
  tracing/kprobe: Update symbol reference when loading module
  tracing/kprobes: Support module init function probing
  kprobes: Return -ENOENT if probe point doesn't exist
  ...

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);