Its better to use memdup_user which does the same thing which this
code has implemented. Also removed a related warning as we will be
warned if allocation fails.
Suggested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: removed type change done in v1, and removed a warning.
drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c | 15 ++++-----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
index b2f4055..415124f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/i4l/icn/icn.c
@@ -810,16 +810,10 @@ icn_loadboot(u_char __user *buffer, icn_card *card)
#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))
+ return PTR_ERR(codebuf);
+
if (!card->rvalid) {
if (!request_region(card->port, ICN_PORTLEN, card->regname)) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
@@ -902,7 +896,6 @@ icn_loadboot(u_char __user *buffer, icn_card *card)
out_kfree:
kfree(codebuf);
-out:
return ret;
}
--
1.9.1
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