scsi: megaraid_sas: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
authorMarkus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:39:04 +0000 (10:39 +0200)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Wed, 24 Aug 2016 02:46:58 +0000 (22:46 -0400)
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@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c

index 2dab3dc..c87e5ef 100644 (file)
@@ -6711,14 +6711,9 @@ static int megasas_mgmt_ioctl_fw(struct file *file, unsigned long arg)
        unsigned long flags;
        u32 wait_time = MEGASAS_RESET_WAIT_TIME;
 
-       ioc = kmalloc(sizeof(*ioc), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!ioc)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       if (copy_from_user(ioc, user_ioc, sizeof(*ioc))) {
-               error = -EFAULT;
-               goto out_kfree_ioc;
-       }
+       ioc = memdup_user(user_ioc, sizeof(*ioc));
+       if (IS_ERR(ioc))
+               return PTR_ERR(ioc);
 
        instance = megasas_lookup_instance(ioc->host_no);
        if (!instance) {