[PATCH] scsi: smartpqi: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user

From: Thorsten Blum

Date: Mon Sep 22 2025 - 16:19:20 EST


Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to
simplify and improve pqi_passthru_ioctl().

Since memdup_user() already allocates memory, use kzalloc() in the else
branch instead of manually zeroing 'kernel_buffer' using memset(0).

Return early if an error occurs. No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 17 ++++++++---------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
index 125944941601..03c97e60d36f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/cciss_ioctl.h>
#include <linux/crash_dump.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
#include <scsi/scsi_device.h>
@@ -6774,17 +6775,15 @@ static int pqi_passthru_ioctl(struct pqi_ctrl_info *ctrl_info, void __user *arg)
}

if (iocommand.buf_size > 0) {
- kernel_buffer = kmalloc(iocommand.buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!kernel_buffer)
- return -ENOMEM;
if (iocommand.Request.Type.Direction & XFER_WRITE) {
- if (copy_from_user(kernel_buffer, iocommand.buf,
- iocommand.buf_size)) {
- rc = -EFAULT;
- goto out;
- }
+ kernel_buffer = memdup_user(iocommand.buf,
+ iocommand.buf_size);
+ if (IS_ERR(kernel_buffer))
+ return PTR_ERR(kernel_buffer);
} else {
- memset(kernel_buffer, 0, iocommand.buf_size);
+ kernel_buffer = kzalloc(iocommand.buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!kernel_buffer)
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
}

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