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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
buf += 4;
length -= 4;
- kbuf = kmalloc (length, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!kbuf)
- return -ENOMEM;
- if (copy_from_user (kbuf, buf, length)) {
- kfree (kbuf);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ kbuf = memdup_user(buf, length);
+ if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
+ return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
spin_lock_irq (&dev->lock);
value = -EINVAL;