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>
diff --git a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
index 579fd65..0b1ac6b 100644
--- a/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
+++ b/drivers/ptp/ptp_chardev.c
@@ -208,14 +208,9 @@
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) {