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author | Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> | 2010-08-09 17:18:26 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -0700 |
commit | 90d7404558fbe6f369d5e27b5ea3ef1e57562d3d (patch) | |
tree | 0dbd7ef38a1e9e95b6c9aeb03d8d549ea5cf6141 | |
parent | 9e58143dc08123c22c5b9f782b2913bd3a07a03d (diff) | |
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mm: use memdup_user
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: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -225,15 +225,10 @@ char *strndup_user(const char __user *s, long n) if (length > n) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - p = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL); + p = memdup_user(s, length); - if (!p) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - - if (copy_from_user(p, s, length)) { - kfree(p); - return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); - } + if (IS_ERR(p)) + return p; p[length - 1] = '\0'; |