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>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Scott Fang <ScottFang@viatech.com.cn>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
break;
case VIAFB_SET_GAMMA_LUT:
- viafb_gamma_table = kmalloc(256 * sizeof(u32), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!viafb_gamma_table)
- return -ENOMEM;
- if (copy_from_user(viafb_gamma_table, argp,
- 256 * sizeof(u32))) {
- kfree(viafb_gamma_table);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ viafb_gamma_table = memdup_user(argp, 256 * sizeof(u32));
+ if (IS_ERR(viafb_gamma_table))
+ return PTR_ERR(viafb_gamma_table);
viafb_set_gamma_table(viafb_bpp, viafb_gamma_table);
kfree(viafb_gamma_table);
break;