[PATCH 1/7] aacraid: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation

SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-21T07:19:04Z

Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:05:24 +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@users.sourceforge.net>
---
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
index 5648b71..1af3084 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
@@ -526,15 +526,9 @@ static int aac_send_raw_srb(struct aac_dev* dev, void __user * arg)
goto cleanup;
}

- user_srbcmd = kmalloc(fibsize, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!user_srbcmd) {
- dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not make a copy of the srb\n"));
- rcode = -ENOMEM;
- goto cleanup;
- }
- if(copy_from_user(user_srbcmd, user_srb,fibsize)){
- dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Could not copy srb from user\n"));
- rcode = -EFAULT;
+ user_srbcmd = memdup_user(user_srb, fibsize);
+ if (IS_ERR(user_srbcmd)) {
+ rcode = PTR_ERR(user_srbcmd);
goto cleanup;
}

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2.9.3