Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
duplicate source code.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
                 * we should allow parameter change only when stream has been
                 * opened not in other cases
                 */
-               params = kmalloc(sizeof(*params), GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!params)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
-               if (copy_from_user(params, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(*params))) {
-                       retval = -EFAULT;
-                       goto out;
-               }
+               params = memdup_user((void __user *)arg, sizeof(*params));
+               if (IS_ERR(params))
+                       return PTR_ERR(params);
 
                retval = snd_compress_check_input(params);
                if (retval)