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/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c | 45 ++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c b/drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c index e61fdba..d87d56f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c +++ b/drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c @@ -644,17 +644,10 @@ static int vfe_config(struct msm_vfe_cfg_cmd *cmd, void *data) if (!axid) return -EFAULT; - axio = - kmalloc(sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config), - GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!axio) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(axio, (void __user *)(vfecmd.value), - sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config))) { - kfree(axio); - return -EFAULT; - } + axio = memdup_user((void __user *)(vfecmd.value), + sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config)); + if (IS_ERR(axio)) + return PTR_ERR(axio); vfe_config_axi(OUTPUT_1, axid, axio); vfe_axi_output_config(axio); @@ -669,17 +662,10 @@ static int vfe_config(struct msm_vfe_cfg_cmd *cmd, void *data) if (!axid) return -EFAULT; - axio = - kmalloc(sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config), - GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!axio) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(axio, (void __user *)(vfecmd.value), - sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config))) { - kfree(axio); - return -EFAULT; - } + axio = memdup_user((void __user *)(vfecmd.value), + sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config)); + if (IS_ERR(axio)) + return PTR_ERR(axio); vfe_config_axi(OUTPUT_2, axid, axio); @@ -694,17 +680,10 @@ static int vfe_config(struct msm_vfe_cfg_cmd *cmd, void *data) if (!axid) return -EFAULT; - axio = - kmalloc(sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config), - GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!axio) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(axio, (void __user *)(vfecmd.value), - sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config))) { - kfree(axio); - return -EFAULT; - } + axio = memdup_user((void __user *)(vfecmd.value), + sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config)); + if (IS_ERR(axio)) + return PTR_ERR(axio); vfe_config_axi(OUTPUT_1_AND_2, axid, axio); -- 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