From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Rex Nie <rex.nie@jaguarmicro.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: core: replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 13:05:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025100807-spellbind-catching-597c@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250919115654.1011141-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 01:56:50PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to
> simplify and improve proc_do_submiturb(). Replace the hard-coded 8 bytes
> with the size of 'struct usb_ctrlrequest'.
>
> Return early if an error occurs, and avoid manually setting 'ret' and
> using 'goto error'.
>
> No functional changes intended.
Same comments as the other patch that you submitted doing the same thing
for a different part of the same function.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-08 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-19 11:56 [PATCH] USB: core: replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user Thorsten Blum
2025-10-08 11:05 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2025-10-08 21:23 ` Oliver Neukum
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