Patch looks good. Thanks! Acked-by: Anil Gurumurthy <anil.gurumurthy@xxxxxxxxxx> -----Original Message----- From: Fabian Frederick [mailto:fabf@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 November 2014 00:20 To: linux-kernel Cc: Joe Perches; Greg Kroah-Hartman; One Thousand Gnomes; Fabian Frederick; Anil Gurumurthy; Sudarsana Kalluru; James E.J. Bottomley; linux-scsi Subject: [PATCH V4 linux-next RESEND 2] bfa: replace 2 kzalloc/copy_from_user by memdup_user This patch also removes unnecessary printk(KERN_INFO Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> --- V4: remove blank line after memdup_user V3: memdup_user first argument is already void __user * (thanks to Joe Perches) typo in title V2: Remove printk(KERN_INFO (suggested by Alan) drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_debugfs.c | 30 ++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_debugfs.c b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_debugfs.c index 8e83d04..74a307c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bfa/bfad_debugfs.c @@ -260,18 +260,9 @@ bfad_debugfs_write_regrd(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, unsigned long flags; void *kern_buf; - kern_buf = kzalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL); - - if (!kern_buf) { - printk(KERN_INFO "bfad[%d]: Failed to allocate buffer\n", - bfad->inst_no); - return -ENOMEM; - } - - if (copy_from_user(kern_buf, (void __user *)buf, nbytes)) { - kfree(kern_buf); - return -ENOMEM; - } + kern_buf = memdup_user(buf, nbytes); + if (IS_ERR(kern_buf)) + return PTR_ERR(kern_buf); rc = sscanf(kern_buf, "%x:%x", &addr, &len); if (rc < 2) { @@ -336,18 +327,9 @@ bfad_debugfs_write_regwr(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, unsigned long flags; void *kern_buf; - kern_buf = kzalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL); - - if (!kern_buf) { - printk(KERN_INFO "bfad[%d]: Failed to allocate buffer\n", - bfad->inst_no); - return -ENOMEM; - } - - if (copy_from_user(kern_buf, (void __user *)buf, nbytes)) { - kfree(kern_buf); - return -ENOMEM; - } + kern_buf = memdup_user(buf, nbytes); + if (IS_ERR(kern_buf)) + return PTR_ERR(kern_buf); rc = sscanf(kern_buf, "%x:%x", &addr, &val); if (rc < 2) { -- 1.9.3
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