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> --- drivers/net/ppp_generic.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c index 5441688..da7943d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c @@ -539,14 +539,9 @@ static int get_filter(void __user *arg, struct sock_filter **p) } len = uprog.len * sizeof(struct sock_filter); - code = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (code == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(code, uprog.filter, len)) { - kfree(code); - return -EFAULT; - } + code = memdup_user(uprog.filter, len); + if (IS_ERR(code)) + return PTR_ERR(code); err = sk_chk_filter(code, uprog.len); if (err) { -- 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
