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/message/i2o/i2o_config.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c index d33693c..c4b117f 100644 --- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c +++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c @@ -186,14 +186,9 @@ static int i2o_cfg_parms(unsigned long arg, unsigned int type) if (!dev) return -ENXIO; - ops = kmalloc(kcmd.oplen, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ops) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(ops, kcmd.opbuf, kcmd.oplen)) { - kfree(ops); - return -EFAULT; - } + ops = memdup_user(kcmd.opbuf, kcmd.oplen); + if (IS_ERR(ops)) + return PTR_ERR(ops); /* * It's possible to have a _very_ large table -- 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
