The patch titled
mm: use memdup_user
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-use-memdup_user.patch
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Subject: mm: use memdup_user
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>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/util.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/util.c~mm-use-memdup_user mm/util.c
--- a/mm/util.c~mm-use-memdup_user
+++ a/mm/util.c
@@ -225,15 +225,10 @@ char *strndup_user(const char __user *s,
if (length > n)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- p = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ p = memdup_user(s, length);
- if (!p)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
- if (copy_from_user(p, s, length)) {
- kfree(p);
- return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
- }
+ if (IS_ERR(p))
+ return p;
p[length - 1] = '\0';
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
drivers-scsi-aacraid-eliminate-use-after-free.patch
arch-x86-pci-use-kasprintf.patch
drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch
drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch
drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch
drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc.patch
drivers-char-ppdevc-use-kasprintf.patch
net-can-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-net-use-memdup_user.patch
fs-btrfs-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-video-via-use-memdup_user.patch
mm-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-net-cxgb3-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-net-wan-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-block-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-media-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-infiniband-core-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-i2c-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-ieee1394-use-memdup_user.patch
fs-autofs4-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-scsi-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-char-applicomc-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-char-vtc-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-message-i2o-i2o_configc-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-telephony-ixjc-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-s390-net-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-ide-use-memdup_user.patch
net-dccp-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-net-wireless-prism54-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-usb-gadget-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-isdn-use-memdup_user.patch
drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user.patch
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