On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 10:43:32AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 11:17:52AM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> > Use memdup_user_nul() helper instead of open-coding to
> > simplify the code.
> >
> > Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c | 13 +++----------
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
> > index b570e13394ac..2ecdc1bc5092 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/camera.c
> > @@ -1120,16 +1120,9 @@ static ssize_t gb_camera_debugfs_write(struct file *file,
> > if (len > 1024)
> > return -EINVAL;
> >
> > - kbuf = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > - if (!kbuf)
> > - return -ENOMEM;
> > -
> > - if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, len)) {
> > - ret = -EFAULT;
> > - goto done;
> > - }
> > -
> > - kbuf[len] = '\0';
> > + kbuf = memdup_user_nul(buf, len);
> > + if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
> > + return PTR_ERR(kbuf);;
> ^^
> There is an extra semi-colon here. Checkpatch actually catches this
> sort of typo.
So when someone makes a typo like this, my response is:
1) Let's add this to checkpatch (turns out it was already done)
2) Let's grep the kernel and fix the other instances. The command would
be something like: git grep ';;$' | grep '\.c:'
regards,
dan carpenter
