Use memdup_user_nul() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/sof/ipc3-dtrace.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/ipc3-dtrace.c b/sound/soc/sof/ipc3-dtrace.c index 35da85a45a9a..bd07f0472efd 100644 --- a/sound/soc/sof/ipc3-dtrace.c +++ b/sound/soc/sof/ipc3-dtrace.c @@ -196,15 +196,9 @@ static ssize_t dfsentry_trace_filter_write(struct file *file, const char __user return -EINVAL; } - string = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!string) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(string, from, count)) { - ret = -EFAULT; - goto error; - } - string[count] = '\0'; + string = memdup_user_nul(from, count); + if (IS_ERR(string)) + return PTR_ERR(string); ret = trace_filter_parse(sdev, string, &num_elems, &elems); if (ret < 0) -- 2.25.1