Its better to use memdup_user which does the same thing which this code has implemented. Suggested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c | 16 +++++----------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c index b2f4055..5312675 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c +++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c @@ -804,21 +804,16 @@ static int icn_loadboot(u_char __user *buffer, icn_card *card) { int ret; - u_char *codebuf; + void *codebuf; unsigned long flags; #ifdef BOOT_DEBUG printk(KERN_DEBUG "icn_loadboot called, buffaddr=%08lx\n", (ulong) buffer); #endif - codebuf = kmalloc(ICN_CODE_STAGE1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!codebuf) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "icn: Could not allocate code buffer\n"); - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } - if (copy_from_user(codebuf, buffer, ICN_CODE_STAGE1)) { - ret = -EFAULT; - goto out_kfree; + codebuf = memdup_user(buffer, ICN_CODE_STAGE1); + if (IS_ERR(codebuf)) { + pr_warn("icn: Could not allocate code buffer\n"); + return PTR_ERR(codebuf); } if (!card->rvalid) { if (!request_region(card->port, ICN_PORTLEN, card->regname)) { @@ -902,7 +897,6 @@ icn_loadboot(u_char __user *buffer, icn_card *card) out_kfree: kfree(codebuf); -out: return ret; } -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel