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: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
p->length > PRISM2_HOSTAPD_MAX_BUF_SIZE || !p->pointer)
return -EINVAL;
- param = kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (param == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(param, p->pointer, p->length)) {
- kfree(param);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ param = memdup_user(p->pointer, p->length);
+ if (IS_ERR(param))
+ return PTR_ERR(param);
switch (param->cmd) {
case PRISM2_SET_ENCRYPTION: