From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 17:42:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] IB/core: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation Message-Id: <7eb9ab74-b609-44d3-86f2-60137817aeed@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, Doug Ledford , Hal Rosenstock , Sean Hefty Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:45:22 +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 --- include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h index 6f667dd..033610b 100644 --- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h @@ -2205,16 +2205,11 @@ static inline bool ib_is_udata_cleared(struct ib_udata *udata, if (len > USHRT_MAX) return false; - buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!buf) + buf = memdup_user(p, len); + if (IS_ERR(buf)) return false; - if (copy_from_user(buf, p, len)) - goto free; - ret = !memchr_inv(buf, 0, len); - -free: kfree(buf); return ret; } -- 2.9.3