Use memdup_user to duplicate a memory region from user-space to
kernel-space, instead of open coding using kmalloc & copy_from_user.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakre...@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c b/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
index ef04a9f..2955983 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
@@ -438,13 +438,9 @@ do_kdgkb_ioctl(struct kbd_data *kbd, struct kbsentry 
__user *u_kbs,
                        return -EFAULT;
                if (len > sizeof(u_kbs->kb_string))
                        return -EINVAL;
-               p = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!p)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
-               if (copy_from_user(p, u_kbs->kb_string, len)) {
-                       kfree(p);
-                       return -EFAULT;
-               }
+               p = memdup_user(u_kbs->kb_string, len);
+               if (IS_ERR(p))
+                       return PTR_ERR(p);
                /*
                 * Make sure the string is terminated by 0. User could have
                 * modified it between us running strnlen_user() and copying it.
-- 
1.9.1

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