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authorMarkus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>2016-08-21 10:39:04 +0200
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2016-08-23 22:46:58 -0400
commit709ab231f8b4417411147dd9730928ba214d5c31 (patch)
treedde326964cc71b05684f2856c55e999555b594c6
parent2a1e8447153259922c0d97eb5d35f76c9b41fbb0 (diff)
scsi: megaraid_sas: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
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> Acked by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
index 2dab3dc2aa69..c87e5ef96ada 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_base.c
@@ -6711,14 +6711,9 @@ static int megasas_mgmt_ioctl_fw(struct file *file, unsigned long arg)
unsigned long flags;
u32 wait_time = MEGASAS_RESET_WAIT_TIME;
- ioc = kmalloc(sizeof(*ioc), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ioc)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(ioc, user_ioc, sizeof(*ioc))) {
- error = -EFAULT;
- goto out_kfree_ioc;
- }
+ ioc = memdup_user(user_ioc, sizeof(*ioc));
+ if (IS_ERR(ioc))
+ return PTR_ERR(ioc);
instance = megasas_lookup_instance(ioc->host_no);
if (!instance) {