From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> Use kmemdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives The semantic patch that makes this output is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c 2011-04-14 10:34:17.670994023 +0200 +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-dev.c 2011-08-01 22:08:25.888046385 +0200 @@ -251,15 +251,10 @@ static noinline int i2cdev_ioctl_rdrw(st if (rdwr_arg.nmsgs > I2C_RDRW_IOCTL_MAX_MSGS) return -EINVAL; - rdwr_pa = kmalloc(rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(struct i2c_msg), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!rdwr_pa) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(rdwr_pa, rdwr_arg.msgs, - rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(struct i2c_msg))) { - kfree(rdwr_pa); - return -EFAULT; - } + rdwr_pa = memdup_user(rdwr_arg.msgs, + rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(struct i2c_msg)); + if (IS_ERR(rdwr_pa)) + return PTR_ERR(rdwr_pa); data_ptrs = kmalloc(rdwr_arg.nmsgs * sizeof(u8 __user *), GFP_KERNEL); if (data_ptrs == NULL) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
