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| author | Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> | 2016-05-20 15:21:02 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-05-24 00:05:30 +0300 |
| commit | 2ece068e1b1d6e76ecd07e04b027013e931287ff (patch) | |
| tree | ed65b8a1f79facfd32b90da59f7d32c1784723a1 /drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | |
| parent | 8da07a393f48864a87c61bb1dfbee640d9b97fd6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2ece068e1b1d6e76ecd07e04b027013e931287ff.tar.xz | |
ptp: 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>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c index 579fd65299a0..0b1ac6be69ce 100644 --- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c +++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c @@ -208,14 +208,9 @@ long ptp_ioctl(struct posix_clock *pc, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) break; case PTP_SYS_OFFSET: - sysoff = kmalloc(sizeof(*sysoff), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!sysoff) { - err = -ENOMEM; - break; - } - if (copy_from_user(sysoff, (void __user *)arg, - sizeof(*sysoff))) { - err = -EFAULT; + sysoff = memdup_user((void __user *)arg, sizeof(*sysoff)); + if (IS_ERR(sysoff)) { + err = PTR_ERR(sysoff); break; } if (sysoff->n_samples > PTP_MAX_SAMPLES) { |