{
        int error;
        void *kvalue = NULL;
-       void *vvalue = NULL;    /* If non-NULL, we used vmalloc() */
        char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1];
 
        if (flags & ~(XATTR_CREATE|XATTR_REPLACE))
                        return -E2BIG;
                kvalue = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
                if (!kvalue) {
-                       vvalue = vmalloc(size);
-                       if (!vvalue)
+                       kvalue = vmalloc(size);
+                       if (!kvalue)
                                return -ENOMEM;
-                       kvalue = vvalue;
                }
                if (copy_from_user(kvalue, value, size)) {
                        error = -EFAULT;
 
        error = vfs_setxattr(d, kname, kvalue, size, flags);
 out:
-       if (vvalue)
-               vfree(vvalue);
-       else
-               kfree(kvalue);
+       kvfree(kvalue);
+
        return error;
 }
 
 {
        ssize_t error;
        void *kvalue = NULL;
-       void *vvalue = NULL;
        char kname[XATTR_NAME_MAX + 1];
 
        error = strncpy_from_user(kname, name, sizeof(kname));
                        size = XATTR_SIZE_MAX;
                kvalue = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN);
                if (!kvalue) {
-                       vvalue = vmalloc(size);
-                       if (!vvalue)
+                       kvalue = vmalloc(size);
+                       if (!kvalue)
                                return -ENOMEM;
-                       kvalue = vvalue;
                }
        }
 
                   than XATTR_SIZE_MAX bytes. Not possible. */
                error = -E2BIG;
        }
-       if (vvalue)
-               vfree(vvalue);
-       else
-               kfree(kvalue);
+
+       kvfree(kvalue);
+
        return error;
 }
 
 {
        ssize_t error;
        char *klist = NULL;
-       char *vlist = NULL;     /* If non-NULL, we used vmalloc() */
 
        if (size) {
                if (size > XATTR_LIST_MAX)
                        size = XATTR_LIST_MAX;
                klist = kmalloc(size, __GFP_NOWARN | GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!klist) {
-                       vlist = vmalloc(size);
-                       if (!vlist)
+                       klist = vmalloc(size);
+                       if (!klist)
                                return -ENOMEM;
-                       klist = vlist;
                }
        }
 
                   than XATTR_LIST_MAX bytes. Not possible. */
                error = -E2BIG;
        }
-       if (vlist)
-               vfree(vlist);
-       else
-               kfree(klist);
+
+       kvfree(klist);
+
        return error;
 }