Use memdup_user_nul() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c index d0daf75..88f9f79 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c @@ -1502,14 +1502,9 @@ static ssize_t video_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, int ret; u32 video_out; - cmd = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!cmd) - return -ENOMEM; - if (copy_from_user(cmd, buf, count)) { - kfree(cmd); - return -EFAULT; - } - cmd[count] = '\0'; + cmd = memdup_user_nul(buf, count); + if (IS_ERR(cmd)) + return PTR_ERR(cmd); buffer = cmd; -- 2.9.3