From: Akinobu Mita Use kasprintf instead of kmalloc()-strcpy()-strcat(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/partitions/check.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~partitions-use-kasprintf fs/partitions/check.c --- a/fs/partitions/check.c~partitions-use-kasprintf +++ a/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -409,16 +409,11 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, static char *make_block_name(struct gendisk *disk) { char *name; - static char *block_str = "block:"; - int size; char *s; - size = strlen(block_str) + strlen(disk->disk_name) + 1; - name = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "block:%s", disk->disk_name); if (!name) return NULL; - strcpy(name, block_str); - strcat(name, disk->disk_name); /* ewww... some of these buggers have / in name... */ s = strchr(name, '/'); if (s) _