mm: use memdup_user
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:26 +0000 (17:18 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:44:54 +0000 (20:44 -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: 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>
mm/util.c

index f5712e8964be8a8da2c521361dee71c123689428..4735ea48181680405531a91ffc200b57035a5738 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -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';