From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 16:40:29 +0100

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

  This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

* Return directly after this function call failed at the beginning.

* Delete the label "out" which became unnecessary with this refactoring.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c | 19 ++++---------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c 
b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
index 83e0c95d20a4..fb3d92a21afa 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
@@ -754,27 +754,16 @@ static int vmci_host_do_ctx_set_cpt_state(struct 
vmci_host_dev *vmci_host_dev,
        if (copy_from_user(&set_info, uptr, sizeof(set_info)))
                return -EFAULT;
 
-       cpt_buf = kmalloc(set_info.buf_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!cpt_buf) {
-               vmci_ioctl_err(
-                       "cannot allocate memory to set cpt state (type=%d)\n",
-                       set_info.cpt_type);
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
-
-       if (copy_from_user(cpt_buf, (void __user *)(uintptr_t)set_info.cpt_buf,
-                          set_info.buf_size)) {
-               retval = -EFAULT;
-               goto out;
-       }
+       cpt_buf = memdup_user((void __user *)(uintptr_t)set_info.cpt_buf,
+                             set_info.buf_size);
+       if (IS_ERR(cpt_buf))
+               return PTR_ERR(cpt_buf);
 
        cid = vmci_ctx_get_id(vmci_host_dev->context);
        set_info.result = vmci_ctx_set_chkpt_state(cid, set_info.cpt_type,
                                                   set_info.buf_size, cpt_buf);
 
        retval = copy_to_user(uptr, &set_info, sizeof(set_info)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
-
-out:
        kfree(cpt_buf);
        return retval;
 }
-- 
2.16.2

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