drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c: use memdup_user
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:42:12 +0000 (14:42 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:41 +0000 (09:12 -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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c

index d33693c133689522e5ca74e8de41c8aaa7c42066..c4b117f5fb70959df600a2153ac7d961a692488c 100644 (file)
@@ -186,14 +186,9 @@ static int i2o_cfg_parms(unsigned long arg, unsigned int type)
        if (!dev)
                return -ENXIO;
 
-       ops = kmalloc(kcmd.oplen, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!ops)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       if (copy_from_user(ops, kcmd.opbuf, kcmd.oplen)) {
-               kfree(ops);
-               return -EFAULT;
-       }
+       ops = memdup_user(kcmd.opbuf, kcmd.oplen);
+       if (IS_ERR(ops))
+               return PTR_ERR(ops);
 
        /*
         * It's possible to have a _very_ large table