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/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c index 8d1190c..2a62c60 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c @@ -2751,14 +2751,9 @@ prism54_hostapd(struct net_device *ndev, struct iw_point *p) p->length > PRISM2_HOSTAPD_MAX_BUF_SIZE || !p->pointer) return -EINVAL; - param = kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL); - if (param == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(param, p->pointer, p->length)) { - kfree(param); - return -EFAULT; - } + param = memdup_user(p->pointer, p->length); + if (IS_ERR(param)) + return PTR_ERR(param); switch (param->cmd) { case PRISM2_SET_ENCRYPTION: -- 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
