[PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Use memdup_user instead of kmalloc/copy_from_user

From: Jiapeng Chong
Date: Thu Dec 09 2021 - 22:38:46 EST


Fix following coccicheck warning:

./drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:4253:8-15: WARNING
opportunity for memdup_user.

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index 56adfe4087a8..c6a2fbfe8f26 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -4250,17 +4250,12 @@ static int rtw_test(
DBG_88E("+%s\n", __func__);
len = wrqu->data.length;

- pbuf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!pbuf) {
- DBG_88E("%s: no memory!\n", __func__);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
- if (copy_from_user(pbuf, wrqu->data.pointer, len)) {
- kfree(pbuf);
+ pbuf = memdup_user(wrqu->data.pointer, len);
+ if (IS_ERR(pbuf)) {
DBG_88E("%s: copy from user fail!\n", __func__);
- return -EFAULT;
+ return PTR_ERR(pbuf);
}
+
DBG_88E("%s: string =\"%s\"\n", __func__, pbuf);

ptmp = (char *)pbuf;
--
2.34.0