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* [PATCH] tty/vt/keyboard: use memdup_user().
@ 2016-05-20 12:23 Muhammad Falak R Wani
  2016-05-20 12:27 ` Samuel Thibault
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Muhammad Falak R Wani @ 2016-05-20 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
  Cc: Jiri Slaby, Samuel Thibault, Dmitry Torokhov, Pavel Machek,
	linux-kernel

Use memdup_user to duplicate a memory region from user-space to
kernel-space, instead of open coding using kmalloc & copy_from_user.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
index f973bfc..698ea43 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
@@ -1745,16 +1745,10 @@ int vt_do_diacrit(unsigned int cmd, void __user *udp, int perm)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
 		if (ct) {
-			buf = kmalloc(ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc),
-								GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (buf == NULL)
-				return -ENOMEM;
-
-			if (copy_from_user(buf, a->kbdiacruc,
-					ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc))) {
-				kfree(buf);
-				return -EFAULT;
-			}
+			buf = memdup_user(a->kbdiacruc,
+					  ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc));
+			if (IS_ERR(buf))
+				return PTR_ERR(buf);
 		} 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
 		if (ct)
-- 
1.9.1

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