From df1f1d1cb43b4ffdef5ba5f0623e2f73e94ce030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 10:22:49 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] drivers/mtd: 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: David Woodhouse --- drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c index 8bb5e4a66328..8b223c0343ee 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c @@ -404,14 +404,9 @@ static int mtd_do_writeoob(struct file *file, struct mtd_info *mtd, if (ops.ooboffs && ops.ooblen > (mtd->oobsize - ops.ooboffs)) return -EINVAL; - ops.oobbuf = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ops.oobbuf) - return -ENOMEM; - - if (copy_from_user(ops.oobbuf, ptr, length)) { - kfree(ops.oobbuf); - return -EFAULT; - } + ops.oobbuf = memdup_user(ptr, length); + if (IS_ERR(ops.oobbuf)) + return PTR_ERR(ops.oobbuf); start &= ~((uint64_t)mtd->oobsize - 1); ret = mtd->write_oob(mtd, start, &ops);