The patch titled drivers/media: use memdup_user has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-media-use-memdup_user.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/media: 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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c | 10 +++------- drivers/media/video/dabusb.c | 13 ++++--------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c~drivers-media-use-memdup_user drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c~drivers-media-use-memdup_user +++ a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c @@ -1130,13 +1130,9 @@ static int dvbdmx_write(struct dmx_demux if ((!demux->frontend) || (demux->frontend->source != DMX_MEMORY_FE)) return -EINVAL; - p = kmalloc(count, GFP_USER); - if (!p) - return -ENOMEM; - if (copy_from_user(p, buf, count)) { - kfree(p); - return -EFAULT; - } + p = memdup_user(buf, count); + if (IS_ERR(p)) + return PTR_ERR(p); if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&dvbdemux->mutex)) { kfree(p); return -ERESTARTSYS; diff -puN drivers/media/video/dabusb.c~drivers-media-use-memdup_user drivers/media/video/dabusb.c --- a/drivers/media/video/dabusb.c~drivers-media-use-memdup_user +++ a/drivers/media/video/dabusb.c @@ -706,16 +706,11 @@ static long dabusb_ioctl (struct file *f switch (cmd) { case IOCTL_DAB_BULK: - pbulk = kmalloc(sizeof (bulk_transfer_t), GFP_KERNEL); + pbulk = memdup_user((void __user *)arg, + sizeof(bulk_transfer_t)); - if (!pbulk) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - break; - } - - if (copy_from_user (pbulk, (void __user *) arg, sizeof (bulk_transfer_t))) { - ret = -EFAULT; - kfree (pbulk); + if (IS_ERR(pbulk)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(pbulk); break; } _ 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html