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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/* In general, the device is only openable by root anyway, so we're not
particularly concerned that bogus ioctls can flood the console. */
- adgl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct st_ram_io), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!adgl)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(adgl, argp, sizeof(struct st_ram_io))) {
- kfree(adgl);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ adgl = memdup_user(argp, sizeof(struct st_ram_io));
+ if (IS_ERR(adgl))
+ return PTR_ERR(adgl);
lock_kernel();
IndexCard = adgl->num_card-1;