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/video/via/viafbdev.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c index 2bc40e6..1082541 100644 --- a/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c +++ b/drivers/video/via/viafbdev.c @@ -578,14 +578,9 @@ static int viafb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, u_int cmd, u_long arg) break; case VIAFB_SET_GAMMA_LUT: - viafb_gamma_table = kmalloc(256 * sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!viafb_gamma_table) - return -ENOMEM; - if (copy_from_user(viafb_gamma_table, argp, - 256 * sizeof(u32))) { - kfree(viafb_gamma_table); - return -EFAULT; - } + viafb_gamma_table = memdup_user(argp, 256 * sizeof(u32)); + if (IS_ERR(viafb_gamma_table)) + return PTR_ERR(viafb_gamma_table); viafb_set_gamma_table(viafb_bpp, viafb_gamma_table); kfree(viafb_gamma_table); break; -- 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
