drivers/scsi: use memdup_user
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:01:27 +0000 (18:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:59:02 +0000 (08:59 -0700)
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: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/scsi/sg.c

index 2968c6b83ddba4cf34a5a2019b025f521c5683d7..78d616315d8e18e1de032cc895d65801ef81a54a 100644 (file)
@@ -1686,14 +1686,9 @@ static int sg_start_req(Sg_request *srp, unsigned char *cmd)
                int len, size = sizeof(struct sg_iovec) * iov_count;
                struct iovec *iov;
 
-               iov = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
-               if (!iov)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
-
-               if (copy_from_user(iov, hp->dxferp, size)) {
-                       kfree(iov);
-                       return -EFAULT;
-               }
+               iov = memdup_user(hp->dxferp, size);
+               if (IS_ERR(iov))
+                       return PTR_ERR(iov);
 
                len = iov_length(iov, iov_count);
                if (hp->dxfer_len < len) {