summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--lib/parser.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/parser.c b/lib/parser.c
index 618c36ec8efe..dd70e5e6c9e2 100644
--- a/lib/parser.c
+++ b/lib/parser.c
@@ -131,13 +131,10 @@ static int match_number(substring_t *s, int *result, int base)
char *buf;
int ret;
long val;
- size_t len = s->to - s->from;
- buf = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = match_strdup(s);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(buf, s->from, len);
- buf[len] = '\0';
ret = 0;
val = simple_strtol(buf, &endp, base);