linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: use memdup_user

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Date:   Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:45:15 +0800
From:   Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: use memdup_user_nul

Use memdup_user_nul() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
index e5bf1e8..431f513 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c
@@ -367,16 +367,9 @@ static ssize_t ofdt_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t coun
 	char *kbuf;
 	char *tmp;
 
-	if (!(kbuf = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL))) {
-		rv = -ENOMEM;
-		goto out;
-	}
-	if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count)) {
-		rv = -EFAULT;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	kbuf[count] = '\0';
+	kbuf = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
+		return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
 
 	tmp = strchr(kbuf, ' ');
 	if (!tmp) {
-- 
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