From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:10:29 +0200
* Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
duplicate source code.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
* Return directly if this copy operation failed.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/cciss.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index db9d6bb..e044342 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -1587,15 +1587,9 @@ static int cciss_bigpassthru(ctlr_info_t *h, void __user *argp)
return -EINVAL;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EPERM;
- ioc = kmalloc(sizeof(*ioc), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ioc) {
- status = -ENOMEM;
- goto cleanup1;
- }
- if (copy_from_user(ioc, argp, sizeof(*ioc))) {
- status = -EFAULT;
- goto cleanup1;
- }
+ ioc = memdup_user(argp, sizeof(*ioc));
+ if (IS_ERR(ioc))
+ return PTR_ERR(ioc);
if ((ioc->buf_size < 1) &&
(ioc->Request.Type.Direction != XFER_NONE)) {
status = -EINVAL;
--
2.9.3
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