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@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
if (count > 1) {
/* filter does not fit into dfilter => alloc space */
- filter = kmalloc(optlen, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!filter)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(filter, optval, optlen)) {
- kfree(filter);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ filter = memdup_user(optval, optlen);
+ if (IS_ERR(filter))
+ return PTR_ERR(filter);
} else if (count == 1) {
if (copy_from_user(&sfilter, optval, sizeof(sfilter)))
return -EFAULT;