net/can: Use memdup_user
authorJulia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Fri, 21 May 2010 22:18:34 +0000 (22:18 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 31 May 2010 07:24:11 +0000 (00:24 -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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/can/raw.c

index da99cf153b33737ce45a06e71fc89037b96096b3..ccfe633eec8e0df4701cd9ff4ad8b57975cb8f88 100644 (file)
@@ -436,14 +436,9 @@ static int raw_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
 
                if (count > 1) {
                        /* filter does not fit into dfilter => alloc space */
-                       filter = kmalloc(optlen, GFP_KERNEL);
-                       if (!filter)
-                               return -ENOMEM;
-
-                       if (copy_from_user(filter, optval, optlen)) {
-                               kfree(filter);
-                               return -EFAULT;
-                       }
+                       filter = memdup_user(optval, optlen);
+                       if (IS_ERR(filter))
+                               return PTR_ERR(filter);
                } else if (count == 1) {
                        if (copy_from_user(&sfilter, optval, sizeof(sfilter)))
                                return -EFAULT;