This patch replaces kzalloc and copy_from_user with memdup_user call This change was detected with coccinelle tool Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Dhere <cvijaydh@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c index 85e74d1..85b5567 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c @@ -2368,14 +2368,9 @@ ll_file_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) struct hsm_state_set *hss; int rc; - hss = kzalloc(sizeof(*hss), GFP_NOFS); - if (!hss) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(hss, (char *)arg, sizeof(*hss))) { - OBD_FREE_PTR(hss); - return -EFAULT; - } + hss = memdup_user((char *)arg, sizeof(*hss)); + if (IS_ERR(hss)) + return PTR_ERR(hss); rc = ll_hsm_state_set(inode, hss); -- 1.7.9.5 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel