From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Don Brace <don.brace@microchip.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	storagedev@microchip.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: smartpqi: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:18:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250922201832.1697874-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to
simplify and improve pqi_passthru_ioctl().
Since memdup_user() already allocates memory, use kzalloc() in the else
branch instead of manually zeroing 'kernel_buffer' using memset(0).
Return early if an error occurs.  No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
 drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
index 125944941601..03c97e60d36f 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_init.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/cciss_ioctl.h>
 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_device.h>
@@ -6774,17 +6775,15 @@ static int pqi_passthru_ioctl(struct pqi_ctrl_info *ctrl_info, void __user *arg)
 	}
 
 	if (iocommand.buf_size > 0) {
-		kernel_buffer = kmalloc(iocommand.buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!kernel_buffer)
-			return -ENOMEM;
 		if (iocommand.Request.Type.Direction & XFER_WRITE) {
-			if (copy_from_user(kernel_buffer, iocommand.buf,
-				iocommand.buf_size)) {
-				rc = -EFAULT;
-				goto out;
-			}
+			kernel_buffer = memdup_user(iocommand.buf,
+						    iocommand.buf_size);
+			if (IS_ERR(kernel_buffer))
+				return PTR_ERR(kernel_buffer);
 		} else {
-			memset(kernel_buffer, 0, iocommand.buf_size);
+			kernel_buffer = kzalloc(iocommand.buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!kernel_buffer)
+				return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 	}
 
-- 
2.51.0
next             reply	other threads:[~2025-09-22 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-22 20:18 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2025-09-23 16:17 ` [PATCH] scsi: smartpqi: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user Don.Brace
2025-09-25  1:31 ` Martin K. Petersen
2025-09-30  2:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
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