From: Ksenija Stanojevic <ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 13:56:59 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Staging: rdma: Use memdup_user
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ecc4a18d987e7e9f4b7eff2bf9215ac02c8a980;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

Staging: rdma: Use memdup_user

Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

Issue found using coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Ksenija Stanojevic<ksenija.stanojevic@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_fs.c b/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_fs.c
index 25422a3a7238..796af6867007 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_fs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rdma/ipath/ipath_fs.c
@@ -195,16 +195,9 @@ static ssize_t flash_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
-	tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tmp) {
-		ret = -ENOMEM;
-		goto bail;
-	}
-
-	if (copy_from_user(tmp, buf, count)) {
-		ret = -EFAULT;
-		goto bail_tmp;
-	}
+	tmp = memdup_user(buf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(tmp))
+		return PTR_ERR(tmp);
 
 	dd = file_inode(file)->i_private;
 	if (ipath_eeprom_write(dd, pos, tmp, count)) {