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/char/applicom.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/applicom.c b/drivers/char/applicom.c index 63313a3..f4ae0e0 100644 --- a/drivers/char/applicom.c +++ b/drivers/char/applicom.c @@ -703,14 +703,9 @@ static long ac_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) /* In general, the device is only openable by root anyway, so we're not particularly concerned that bogus ioctls can flood the console. */ - adgl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct st_ram_io), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!adgl) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(adgl, argp, sizeof(struct st_ram_io))) { - kfree(adgl); - return -EFAULT; - } + adgl = memdup_user(argp, sizeof(struct st_ram_io)); + if (IS_ERR(adgl)) + return PTR_ERR(adgl); lock_kernel(); IndexCard = adgl->num_card-1; -- 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
