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[PATCH] pstore: use memdup_user

From Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] pstore: use memdup_user
Date 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
Message-ID <tBpGh-7H8-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Use memdup_user() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
---
 fs/pstore/platform.c | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/platform.c b/fs/pstore/platform.c
index 43b3ca5..903e0fe 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/platform.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/platform.c
@@ -640,19 +640,16 @@ static int pstore_write_user_compat(struct pstore_record *record,
 	if (record->buf)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	record->buf = kmalloc(record->size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!record->buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	if (unlikely(copy_from_user(record->buf, buf, record->size))) {
-		ret = -EFAULT;
+	record->buf = memdup_user(buf, record->size);
+	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(record->buf))) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(record->buf);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	ret = record->psi->write(record);
 
-out:
 	kfree(record->buf);
+out:
 	record->buf = NULL;
 
 	return unlikely(ret < 0) ? ret : record->size;
-- 
2.9.3

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[PATCH] cciss: use memdup_user Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: use memdup_user Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH] skd_main: use memdup_user Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH] pstore: use memdup_user Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: use memdup_user_nul Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200
  [PATCH] floppy: use memdup_user Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 03:50 +0200

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