[PATCH] tty/vt/keyboard: use memdup_user to simplify code

From: Saurabh Sengar
Date: Wed Oct 28 2015 - 02:26:55 EST


use memdup_user rather than duplicating implementation.
found by coccinelle

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
index 6f0336f..f973bfc 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
@@ -1706,16 +1706,12 @@ int vt_do_diacrit(unsigned int cmd, void __user *udp, int perm)
return -EINVAL;

if (ct) {
- dia = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kbdiacr) * ct,
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dia)
- return -ENOMEM;

- if (copy_from_user(dia, a->kbdiacr,
- sizeof(struct kbdiacr) * ct)) {
- kfree(dia);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ dia = memdup_user(a->kbdiacr,
+ sizeof(struct kbdiacr) * ct);
+ if (IS_ERR(dia))
+ return PTR_ERR(dia);
+
}

spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
--
1.9.1

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