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-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c12
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c
index 5372ed2a363e..b26c930e3edb 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c
@@ -525,15 +525,9 @@ static ssize_t remote_settings_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *
if (*offset != 0)
return 0;
- buff = kzalloc (count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buff)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
-
- if (copy_from_user(buff, ubuff, count)) {
- kfree(buff);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ buff = memdup_user_nul(ubuff, count);
+ if (IS_ERR(buff))
+ return PTR_ERR(buff);
value = simple_strtoul(buff, NULL, 10);
writel(value, address);