[PATCH] IB/qib: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Fri Aug 19 2016 - 03:09:34 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 08:50:23 +0200

Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
duplicate source code.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c
index fcdf3791..910f0d9 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c
@@ -338,17 +338,12 @@ static ssize_t flash_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
goto bail;
}

- tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!tmp) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ tmp = memdup_user(buf, count);
+ if (IS_ERR(tmp)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(tmp);
goto bail;
}

- if (copy_from_user(tmp, buf, count)) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto bail_tmp;
- }
-
dd = private2dd(file);
if (qib_eeprom_write(dd, pos, tmp, count)) {
ret = -ENXIO;
--
2.9.3