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/ieee1394/video1394.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c b/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c index a42bd68..a77483b 100644 --- a/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.c @@ -1045,14 +1045,9 @@ static long video1394_ioctl(struct file *file, if (get_user(qv, &p->packet_sizes)) return -EFAULT; - psizes = kmalloc(buf_size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!psizes) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(psizes, qv, buf_size)) { - kfree(psizes); - return -EFAULT; - } + psizes = memdup_user(qv, buf_size); + if (IS_ERR(psizes)) + return PTR_ERR(psizes); } spin_lock_irqsave(&d->lock,flags); -- 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
