From c6cfe05532cf6e9858d60ee699c51b906842489d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julia Lawall Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 05:21:02 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB: drivers/media: 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: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/media/dvb') diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c index 977ddba3e23..4a88a3e4db2 100644 --- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c @@ -1130,13 +1130,9 @@ static int dvbdmx_write(struct dmx_demux *demux, const char __user *buf, size_t if ((!demux->frontend) || (demux->frontend->source != DMX_MEMORY_FE)) return -EINVAL; - p = kmalloc(count, GFP_USER); - if (!p) - return -ENOMEM; - if (copy_from_user(p, buf, count)) { - kfree(p); - return -EFAULT; - } + p = memdup_user(buf, count); + if (IS_ERR(p)) + return PTR_ERR(p); if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&dvbdemux->mutex)) { kfree(p); return -ERESTARTSYS; -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258