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-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
index 9ec262a52656..ec090105eb4b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_host.c
@@ -381,18 +381,12 @@ static int vmci_host_do_send_datagram(struct vmci_host_dev *vmci_host_dev,
return -EINVAL;
}
- dg = kmalloc(send_info.len, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!dg) {
+ dg = memdup_user((void __user *)(uintptr_t)send_info.addr,
+ send_info.len);
+ if (IS_ERR(dg)) {
vmci_ioctl_err(
"cannot allocate memory to dispatch datagram\n");
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
- if (copy_from_user(dg, (void __user *)(uintptr_t)send_info.addr,
- send_info.len)) {
- vmci_ioctl_err("error getting datagram\n");
- kfree(dg);
- return -EFAULT;
+ return PTR_ERR(dg);
}
if (VMCI_DG_SIZE(dg) != send_info.len) {