tun: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation
Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
duplicate source code.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 9c8b5bc..a1aeccb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -731,14 +731,9 @@
}
alen = ETH_ALEN * uf.count;
- addr = kmalloc(alen, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!addr)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(addr, arg + sizeof(uf), alen)) {
- err = -EFAULT;
- goto done;
- }
+ addr = memdup_user(arg + sizeof(uf), alen);
+ if (IS_ERR(addr))
+ return PTR_ERR(addr);
/* The filter is updated without holding any locks. Which is
* perfectly safe. We disable it first and in the worst