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/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c b/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c index e3f1b85..066fd5b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c @@ -2311,15 +2311,9 @@ static int cxgb_extension_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) if (copy_from_user(&t, useraddr, sizeof(t))) return -EFAULT; /* Check t.len sanity ? */ - fw_data = kmalloc(t.len, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!fw_data) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user - (fw_data, useraddr + sizeof(t), t.len)) { - kfree(fw_data); - return -EFAULT; - } + fw_data = memdup_user(useraddr + sizeof(t), t.len); + if (IS_ERR(fw_data)) + return PTR_ERR(fw_data); ret = t3_load_fw(adapter, fw_data, t.len); kfree(fw_data); -- 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
