qeth: Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region.
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:15:09 +0000 (23:15 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:36:25 +0000 (12:36 -0700)
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: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c

index 6d51494a7f29d1290a9171d35180b85c991ee3a1..3a5a18a0fc283de5a987365e80dead90a9b6a9ea 100644 (file)
@@ -3748,15 +3748,10 @@ int qeth_snmp_command(struct qeth_card *card, char __user *udata)
        /* skip 4 bytes (data_len struct member) to get req_len */
        if (copy_from_user(&req_len, udata + sizeof(int), sizeof(int)))
                return -EFAULT;
-       ureq = kmalloc(req_len+sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!ureq) {
+       ureq = memdup_user(udata, req_len + sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr));
+       if (IS_ERR(ureq)) {
                QETH_CARD_TEXT(card, 2, "snmpnome");
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
-       if (copy_from_user(ureq, udata,
-                       req_len + sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr))) {
-               kfree(ureq);
-               return -EFAULT;
+               return PTR_ERR(ureq);
        }
        qinfo.udata_len = ureq->hdr.data_len;
        qinfo.udata = kzalloc(qinfo.udata_len, GFP_KERNEL);