cciss: switch to memdup_user_nul()
authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 24 Dec 2015 05:12:09 +0000 (00:12 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:27:50 +0000 (10:27 -0500)
all we do to buffer is strncmp()...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
drivers/block/cciss.c

index 0422c47..b38bd06 100644 (file)
@@ -514,14 +514,9 @@ cciss_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
        if (!buf || length > PAGE_SIZE - 1)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       buffer = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!buffer)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       err = -EFAULT;
-       if (copy_from_user(buffer, buf, length))
-               goto out;
-       buffer[length] = '\0';
+       buffer = memdup_user_nul(buf, length);
+       if (IS_ERR(buffer))
+               return PTR_ERR(buffer);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
        if (strncmp(ENGAGE_SCSI, buffer, sizeof ENGAGE_SCSI - 1) == 0) {
@@ -537,8 +532,7 @@ cciss_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
        /* might be nice to have "disengage" too, but it's not
           safely possible. (only 1 module use count, lock issues.) */
 
-out:
-       free_page((unsigned long)buffer);
+       kfree(buffer);
        return err;
 }