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authorMarkus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>2016-08-20 07:50:09 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-08-22 17:05:38 -0700
commit6f0b826da4a33e83501d6c1dc977afa0f5f7166f (patch)
treeaf27337c277eac3b89b403b4d9548946fef37a24 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
parentb9a24bb76bf611a5268ceffe04219e6ad264559b (diff)
mlx5/core: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
* 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 <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c17
1 files 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 d6e2a1cae19a..bf682252130b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/cmd.c
@@ -1015,7 +1015,6 @@ 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;
@@ -1023,25 +1022,15 @@ 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,