[PATCH] tty/vt/keyboard: use memdup_user().

From: Muhammad Falak R Wani
Date: Fri May 20 2016 - 08:24:03 EST


Use memdup_user to duplicate a memory region from user-space to
kernel-space, instead of open coding using kmalloc & copy_from_user.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 14 ++++----------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
index f973bfc..698ea43 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
@@ -1745,16 +1745,10 @@ int vt_do_diacrit(unsigned int cmd, void __user *udp, int perm)
return -EINVAL;

if (ct) {
- buf = kmalloc(ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (buf == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(buf, a->kbdiacruc,
- ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc))) {
- kfree(buf);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ buf = memdup_user(a->kbdiacruc,
+ ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc));
+ if (IS_ERR(buf))
+ return PTR_ERR(buf);
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
if (ct)
--
1.9.1