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authorMuhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>2016-05-20 17:48:56 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-31 13:18:10 +0200
commit655745b0d1ebeceb0453f1c6adca154a4fac0ad5 (patch)
tree038d825baf87f9f7a7845c52e3203aa2d0ef41fc /drivers/misc
parentb58189b3c5cf54689a0c154e4d9cff918a29ab0b (diff)
VMCI: use memdup_user().
Use memdup_user to duplicate a memory region from user-space to kernel-space, instead of open coding using kmalloc & copy_from_user. Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
index 9ec262a52656..ec090105eb4b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
@@ -381,18 +381,12 @@ static int vmci_host_do_send_datagram(struct vmci_host_dev *vmci_host_dev,
return -EINVAL;
}
- dg = kmalloc(send_info.len, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dg) {
+ dg = memdup_user((void __user *)(uintptr_t)send_info.addr,
+ send_info.len);
+ if (IS_ERR(dg)) {
vmci_ioctl_err(
"cannot allocate memory to dispatch datagram\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
- if (copy_from_user(dg, (void __user *)(uintptr_t)send_info.addr,
- send_info.len)) {
- vmci_ioctl_err("error getting datagram\n");
- kfree(dg);
- return -EFAULT;
+ return PTR_ERR(dg);
}
if (VMCI_DG_SIZE(dg) != send_info.len) {