Merge tag 'pstore-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:
 "Various fixes and tweaks for the pstore subsystem.

  Highlights:

   - use memdup_user() instead of open-coded copies (Geliang Tang)

   - fix record memory leak during initialization (Douglas Anderson)

   - avoid confused compressed record warning (Ankit Kumar)

   - prepopulate record timestamp and remove redundant logic from
     backends"

* tag 'pstore-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user
  pstore: use memdup_user
  pstore: Fix format string to use %u for record id
  pstore: Populate pstore record->time field
  pstore: Create common record initializer
  efi-pstore: Refactor erase routine
  pstore: Avoid potential infinite loop
  pstore: Fix leaked pstore_record in pstore_get_backend_records()
  pstore: Don't warn if data is uncompressed and type is not PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index eae61b044e9e..496d6393bd41 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -792,21 +792,17 @@ static ssize_t dev_nvram_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 	count = min_t(size_t, count, size - *ppos);
 	count = min(count, PAGE_SIZE);
 
-	ret = -ENOMEM;
-	tmp = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tmp)
-		goto out;
-
-	ret = -EFAULT;
-	if (copy_from_user(tmp, buf, count))
+	tmp = memdup_user(buf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(tmp)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(tmp);
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	ret = ppc_md.nvram_write(tmp, count, ppos);
 
-out:
 	kfree(tmp);
+out:
 	return ret;
-
 }
 
 static long dev_nvram_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,