[PATCH] megaraid_sas: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation

From: SF Markus Elfring
Date: Sun Aug 21 2016 - 04:49:16 EST


From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 10:39:04 +0200

Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
duplicate source code.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
index c1ed25a..9a2fe4e 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
@@ -6711,14 +6711,9 @@ static int megasas_mgmt_ioctl_fw(struct file *file, unsigned long arg)
unsigned long flags;
u32 wait_time = MEGASAS_RESET_WAIT_TIME;

- ioc = kmalloc(sizeof(*ioc), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ioc)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(ioc, user_ioc, sizeof(*ioc))) {
- error = -EFAULT;
- goto out_kfree_ioc;
- }
+ ioc = memdup_user(user_ioc, sizeof(*ioc));
+ if (IS_ERR(ioc))
+ return PTR_ERR(ioc);

instance = megasas_lookup_instance(ioc->host_no);
if (!instance) {
--
2.9.3