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authorMuhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>2016-05-20 17:53:28 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-06-25 10:40:33 -0700
commit9b6519009dbe2b361a73284ea0fd2e9b86aeef4d (patch)
treebdadbfcd6ef5a9ad21f685804b67b19d64463672 /drivers/tty/vt
parenta7cfaf165ed0f0b1e5e8636f9f28843b2b90139a (diff)
downloadlinux-9b6519009dbe2b361a73284ea0fd2e9b86aeef4d.tar.bz2
tty/vt/keyboard: 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> Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/vt')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
index cd08c103eb47..89a7ab007ff4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
@@ -1745,16 +1745,10 @@ int vt_do_diacrit(unsigned int cmd, void __user *udp, int perm)
return -EINVAL;
if (ct) {
- buf = kmalloc(ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (buf == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(buf, a->kbdiacruc,
- ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc))) {
- kfree(buf);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ buf = memdup_user(a->kbdiacruc,
+ ct * sizeof(struct kbdiacruc));
+ if (IS_ERR(buf))
+ return PTR_ERR(buf);
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&kbd_event_lock, flags);
if (ct)