From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression from,to,size,flag; position p; identifier l1,l2; @@ - to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag); + to = memdup_user(from,size); if ( - to==NULL + IS_ERR(to) || ...) { <+... when != goto l1; - -ENOMEM + PTR_ERR(to) ...+> } - if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) { - <+... when != goto l2; - -EFAULT - ...+> - } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- net/can/raw.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/can/raw.c b/net/can/raw.c index da99cf1..ccfe633 100644 --- a/net/can/raw.c +++ b/net/can/raw.c @@ -436,14 +436,9 @@ static int raw_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname, if (count > 1) { /* filter does not fit into dfilter => alloc space */ - filter = kmalloc(optlen, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!filter) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(filter, optval, optlen)) { - kfree(filter); - return -EFAULT; - } + filter = memdup_user(optval, optlen); + if (IS_ERR(filter)) + return PTR_ERR(filter); } else if (count == 1) { if (copy_from_user(&sfilter, optval, sizeof(sfilter))) return -EFAULT; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html