linux-kernel - [PATCH] s390/hmcdrv: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user

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Message-ID: <20250905110226.485009-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Fri,  5 Sep 2025 13:02:23 +0200
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
To: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] s390/hmcdrv: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul()

Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul() to
improve and simplify hmcdrv_dev_write(). Remove the manual
NUL-termination.

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
---
 drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c | 19 ++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c b/drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c
index e069dd685899..b26fcf6849f2 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c
@@ -244,24 +244,17 @@ static ssize_t hmcdrv_dev_write(struct file *fp, const char __user *ubuf,
 				size_t len, loff_t *pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retlen;
+	void *pdata;
 
 	pr_debug("writing file '/dev/%pD' at pos. %lld with length %zd\n",
 		 fp, (long long) *pos, len);
 
 	if (!fp->private_data) { /* first expect a cmd write */
-		fp->private_data = kmalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-
-		if (!fp->private_data)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (!copy_from_user(fp->private_data, ubuf, len)) {
-			((char *)fp->private_data)[len] = '\0';
-			return len;
-		}
-
-		kfree(fp->private_data);
-		fp->private_data = NULL;
-		return -EFAULT;
+		pdata = memdup_user_nul(ubuf, len);
+		if (IS_ERR(pdata))
+			return PTR_ERR(pdata);
+		fp->private_data = pdata;
+		return len;
 	}
 
 	retlen = hmcdrv_dev_transfer((char *) fp->private_data,
-- 
2.51.0