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diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 7b4d9714f248..6ac1c92997ea 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static struct proc_dir_entry *__proc_create(struct proc_dir_entry **parent,
if (!ent)
goto out;
- if (qstr.len + 1 <= sizeof(ent->inline_name)) {
+ if (qstr.len + 1 <= SIZEOF_PDE_INLINE_NAME) {
ent->name = ent->inline_name;
} else {
ent->name = kmalloc(qstr.len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -740,3 +740,27 @@ void *PDE_DATA(const struct inode *inode)
return __PDE_DATA(inode);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(PDE_DATA);
+
+/*
+ * Pull a user buffer into memory and pass it to the file's write handler if
+ * one is supplied. The ->write() method is permitted to modify the
+ * kernel-side buffer.
+ */
+ssize_t proc_simple_write(struct file *f, const char __user *ubuf, size_t size,
+ loff_t *_pos)
+{
+ struct proc_dir_entry *pde = PDE(file_inode(f));
+ char *buf;
+ int ret;
+
+ if (!pde->write)
+ return -EACCES;
+ if (size == 0 || size > PAGE_SIZE - 1)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ buf = memdup_user_nul(ubuf, size);
+ if (IS_ERR(buf))
+ return PTR_ERR(buf);
+ ret = pde->write(f, buf, size);
+ kfree(buf);
+ return ret == 0 ? size : ret;
+}