From 9b71ca2005a93ad813b95d92578131ab899ccc5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Lawall Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:42:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] drivers/char/vt.c: 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/) // @@ 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 - ...+> - } // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/vt.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c index bd1d1164fec5..7cdb6ee569cd 100644 --- a/drivers/char/vt.c +++ b/drivers/char/vt.c @@ -3967,13 +3967,9 @@ static int con_font_set(struct vc_data *vc, struct console_font_op *op) font.charcount = op->charcount; font.height = op->height; font.width = op->width; - font.data = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!font.data) - return -ENOMEM; - if (copy_from_user(font.data, op->data, size)) { - kfree(font.data); - return -EFAULT; - } + font.data = memdup_user(op->data, size); + if (IS_ERR(font.data)) + return PTR_ERR(font.data); acquire_console_sem(); if (vc->vc_sw->con_font_set) rc = vc->vc_sw->con_font_set(vc, &font, op->flags); -- 2.20.1