linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Use memdup_user instead of kmalloc/copy_from

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Message-ID: <20211022025555.6612-1-songkai01@inspur.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:55:55 +0800
From:   Kai Song <songkai01@...pur.com>
To:     <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>, <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        <straube.linux@...il.com>, <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Kai Song <songkai01@...pur.com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Use memdup_user instead of kmalloc/copy_from_user

Use memdup_user helper instead of open-coding to simplify
the code.

Signed-off-by: Kai Song <songkai01@...pur.com>
---
 drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
index 0201f6fbeb25..96a08cc5a1ed 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
@@ -1984,14 +1984,10 @@ static int rtw_wx_read32(struct net_device *dev,
 	padapter = (struct adapter *)rtw_netdev_priv(dev);
 	p = &wrqu->data;
 	len = p->length;
-	ptmp = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!ptmp)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(ptmp, p->pointer, len)) {
-		kfree(ptmp);
-		return -EFAULT;
-	}
+	ptmp = memdup_user(p->pointer, len);
+	if (IS_ERR(ptmp))
+		return PTR_ERR(ptmp);
 
 	bytes = 0;
 	addr = 0;
-- 
2.27.0