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/wan/farsync.c | 14 ++++---------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c b/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c index e087b9a..43b7727 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c +++ b/drivers/net/wan/farsync.c @@ -2038,16 +2038,10 @@ fst_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd) /* Now copy the data to the card. */ - buf = kmalloc(wrthdr.size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!buf) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(buf, - ifr->ifr_data + sizeof (struct fstioc_write), - wrthdr.size)) { - kfree(buf); - return -EFAULT; - } + buf = memdup_user(ifr->ifr_data + sizeof(struct fstioc_write), + wrthdr.size); + if (IS_ERR(buf)) + return PTR_ERR(buf); memcpy_toio(card->mem + wrthdr.offset, buf, wrthdr.size); kfree(buf); -- 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
