From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 01:45:13 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0752e4028c003fba1e2b44c4b3cf6a4482e931b6;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git

powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user

Use memdup_user() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---

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,