This is of course wrong to call kfree() if memdup_user() fails, no memory was allocated and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned. Reviewed-by: Ravikant Sharma <ravikant.s2@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c | 7 ++----- drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c | 7 ++----- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c index 534b810..c21591b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c @@ -409,11 +409,8 @@ static ssize_t vfd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, } data_buf = memdup_user(buf, n_bytes); - if (IS_ERR(data_buf)) { - retval = PTR_ERR(data_buf); - data_buf = NULL; - goto exit; - } + if (IS_ERR(data_buf)) + return PTR_ERR(data_buf); memcpy(context->tx.data_buf, data_buf, n_bytes); diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c index f2dca69..ba1ee86 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c @@ -387,11 +387,8 @@ static ssize_t vfd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, } data_buf = memdup_user(buf, n_bytes); - if (IS_ERR(data_buf)) { - retval = PTR_ERR(data_buf); - data_buf = NULL; - goto exit; - } + if (IS_ERR(data_buf)) + return PTR_ERR(data_buf); memcpy(context->tx.data_buf, data_buf, n_bytes); -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel