Aug 22 2016

IB/core: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation 

Author: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

* Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
  duplicate source code.

  This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

* The local variable "ret" will be set to an appropriate value a bit later.
  Thus omit the explicit initialisation at the beginning.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring 
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford 

---
 include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
index 8e90dd2..e1f9673 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -2115,22 +2115,17 @@ static inline bool ib_is_udata_cleared(struct ib_udata *udata,
 				       size_t len)
 {
 	const void __user *p = udata->inbuf + offset;
-	bool ret = false;
+	bool ret;
 	u8 *buf;
 
 	if (len > USHRT_MAX)
 		return false;
 
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buf)
+	buf = memdup_user(p, len);
+	if (IS_ERR(buf))
 		return false;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(buf, p, len))
-		goto free;
-
 	ret = !memchr_inv(buf, 0, len);
-
-free:
 	kfree(buf);
 	return ret;
 }

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