[PATCH] mlx5/core: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
From: SF Markus Elfring <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-20 06:01:51
Also in:
linux-rdma, lkml, netdev
Subsystem:
mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Markus Elfring <redacted> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 07:50:09 +0200 * Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping duplicate source code. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. * Return directly if this copy operation failed. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c | 17 +++-------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
index 6388bc0..bb89f04 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c@@ -1132,7 +1132,6 @@ static ssize_t data_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, struct mlx5_core_dev *dev = filp->private_data; struct mlx5_cmd_debug *dbg = &dev->cmd.dbg; void *ptr; - int err; if (*pos != 0) return -EINVAL;
@@ -1140,25 +1139,15 @@ static ssize_t data_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, kfree(dbg->in_msg); dbg->in_msg = NULL; dbg->inlen = 0; - - ptr = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ptr) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(ptr, buf, count)) { - err = -EFAULT; - goto out; - } + ptr = memdup_user(buf, count); + if (IS_ERR(ptr)) + return PTR_ERR(ptr); dbg->in_msg = ptr; dbg->inlen = count; *pos = count; return count; - -out: - kfree(ptr); - return err; } static ssize_t data_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
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