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authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>2010-05-26 14:43:56 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 09:12:50 -0700
commitf67231f80126f4e08c79c7b2056989c5c89ad4c6 (patch)
tree49f4ed99e843ac6987291dda45f76e7017e27195 /drivers/char
parent87575437d8173c7da48a4dee25399807c7bec9cb (diff)
downloadlinux-f67231f80126f4e08c79c7b2056989c5c89ad4c6.tar.bz2
drivers/char/applicom.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/) // <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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/applicom.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/applicom.c b/drivers/char/applicom.c
index 63313a33ba5f..f4ae0e0fb631 100644
--- a/drivers/char/applicom.c
+++ b/drivers/char/applicom.c
@@ -703,14 +703,9 @@ static long ac_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
/* In general, the device is only openable by root anyway, so we're not
particularly concerned that bogus ioctls can flood the console. */
- adgl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct st_ram_io), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!adgl)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(adgl, argp, sizeof(struct st_ram_io))) {
- kfree(adgl);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ adgl = memdup_user(argp, sizeof(struct st_ram_io));
+ if (IS_ERR(adgl))
+ return PTR_ERR(adgl);
lock_kernel();
IndexCard = adgl->num_card-1;