From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:26 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mm: use memdup_user
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc1~478
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90d7404558fbe6f369d5e27b5ea3ef1e57562d3d;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

mm: 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>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index f5712e8964b..4735ea48181 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -225,15 +225,10 @@ char *strndup_user(const char __user *s, long n)
 	if (length > n)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
-	p = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	p = memdup_user(s, length);
 
-	if (!p)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
-	if (copy_from_user(p, s, length)) {
-		kfree(p);
-		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(p))
+		return p;
 
 	p[length - 1] = '\0';