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/telephony/ixj.c | 15 ++++----------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/telephony/ixj.c b/drivers/telephony/ixj.c index e89304c..b53deee 100644 --- a/drivers/telephony/ixj.c +++ b/drivers/telephony/ixj.c @@ -5879,20 +5879,13 @@ out: static int ixj_build_filter_cadence(IXJ *j, IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE __user * cp) { IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE *lcp; - lcp = kmalloc(sizeof(IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE), GFP_KERNEL); - if (lcp == NULL) { + lcp = memdup_user(cp, sizeof(IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE)); + if (IS_ERR(lcp)) { if(ixjdebug & 0x0001) { - printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate memory for cadence\n"); + printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate memory for cadence or could not copy cadence to kernel\n"); } - return -ENOMEM; + return PTR_ERR(lcp); } - if (copy_from_user(lcp, cp, sizeof(IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE))) { - if(ixjdebug & 0x0001) { - printk(KERN_INFO "Could not copy cadence to kernel\n"); - } - kfree(lcp); - return -EFAULT; - } if (lcp->filter > 5) { if(ixjdebug & 0x0001) { printk(KERN_INFO "Cadence out of range\n"); -- 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
