Staging: Media: Lirc - Fix possible ERR_PTR() dereferencing.

From: Shailendra Verma
Date: Tue Sep 20 2016 - 02:52:03 EST


This is of course wrong to call kfree() if memdup_user() fails,
no memory was allocated and the error in the error-valued pointer
should be returned.

Reviewed-by: Ravikant Sharma <ravikant.s2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Shailendra Verma <shailendra.v@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c | 7 ++-----
drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c | 7 ++-----
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c
index 534b810..c21591b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_imon.c
@@ -409,11 +409,8 @@ static ssize_t vfd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
}

data_buf = memdup_user(buf, n_bytes);
- if (IS_ERR(data_buf)) {
- retval = PTR_ERR(data_buf);
- data_buf = NULL;
- goto exit;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(data_buf))
+ return PTR_ERR(data_buf);

memcpy(context->tx.data_buf, data_buf, n_bytes);

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c
index f2dca69..ba1ee86 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/lirc/lirc_sasem.c
@@ -387,11 +387,8 @@ static ssize_t vfd_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
}

data_buf = memdup_user(buf, n_bytes);
- if (IS_ERR(data_buf)) {
- retval = PTR_ERR(data_buf);
- data_buf = NULL;
- goto exit;
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(data_buf))
+ return PTR_ERR(data_buf);

memcpy(context->tx.data_buf, data_buf, n_bytes);

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1.9.1