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

SF Markus Elfring
2016-08-21T13:55:41Z

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:48:27 +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/usb/misc/iowarrior.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c b/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c
index 7defa34..8ae01b0 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c
@@ -368,14 +368,9 @@ static ssize_t iowarrior_write(struct file *file,
case USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOWPV2:
case USB_DEVICE_ID_CODEMERCS_IOW40:
/* IOW24 and IOW40 use a synchronous call */
- buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buf) {
- retval = -ENOMEM;
- goto exit;
- }
- if (copy_from_user(buf, user_buffer, count)) {
- retval = -EFAULT;
- kfree(buf);
+ buf = memdup_user(user_buffer, count);
+ if (IS_ERR(buf)) {
+ retval = PTR_ERR(buf);
goto exit;
}
retval = usb_set_report(dev->interface, 2, 0, buf, count);
--
2.9.3