From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + drivers-block-use-memdup_user.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:36:41 -0700 Message-ID: <201005252236.o4PMafNA019064@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38784 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757217Ab0EYWj6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 18:39:58 -0400 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org Cc: julia@diku.dk, chirag.kantharia@hp.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com The patch titled drivers/block: use memdup_user has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-block-use-memdup_user.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/block: use memdup_user From: Julia Lawall Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. Some checkpatch cleanups in nearby code. 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 Cc: Chirag Kantharia Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 32 ++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/block/cpqarray.c~drivers-block-use-memdup_user drivers/block/cpqarray.c --- a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c~drivers-block-use-memdup_user +++ a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c @@ -1225,17 +1225,11 @@ static int ida_ctlr_ioctl(ctlr_info_t *h /* Pre submit processing */ switch(io->cmd) { case PASSTHRU_A: - p = kmalloc(io->sg[0].size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!p) - { - error = -ENOMEM; - cmd_free(h, c, 0); - return(error); - } - if (copy_from_user(p, io->sg[0].addr, io->sg[0].size)) { - kfree(p); - cmd_free(h, c, 0); - return -EFAULT; + p = memdup_user(io->sg[0].addr, io->sg[0].size); + if (IS_ERR(p)) { + error = PTR_ERR(p); + cmd_free(h, c, 0); + return error; } c->req.hdr.blk = pci_map_single(h->pci_dev, &(io->c), sizeof(ida_ioctl_t), @@ -1266,18 +1260,12 @@ static int ida_ctlr_ioctl(ctlr_info_t *h case DIAG_PASS_THRU: case COLLECT_BUFFER: case WRITE_FLASH_ROM: - p = kmalloc(io->sg[0].size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!p) - { - error = -ENOMEM; - cmd_free(h, c, 0); - return(error); + p = memdup_user(io->sg[0].addr, io->sg[0].size); + if (IS_ERR(p)) { + error = PTR_ERR(p); + cmd_free(h, c, 0); + return error; } - if (copy_from_user(p, io->sg[0].addr, io->sg[0].size)) { - kfree(p); - cmd_free(h, c, 0); - return -EFAULT; - } c->req.sg[0].size = io->sg[0].size; c->req.sg[0].addr = pci_map_single(h->pci_dev, p, c->req.sg[0].size, PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@diku.dk are origin.patch linux-next.patch drivers-scsi-aacraid-eliminate-use-after-free.patch arch-x86-pci-use-kasprintf.patch drivers-scsi-libsas-use-sam_good.patch drivers-scsi-remove-unnecessary-null-test.patch drivers-message-move-dereference-after-null-test.patch drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc.patch drivers-char-ppdevc-use-kasprintf.patch net-can-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-net-use-memdup_user.patch fs-btrfs-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-video-via-use-memdup_user.patch mm-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-net-cxgb3-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-net-wan-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-block-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-media-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-infiniband-core-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-i2c-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-ieee1394-use-memdup_user.patch fs-autofs4-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-scsi-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-char-applicomc-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-char-vtc-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-message-i2o-i2o_configc-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-telephony-ixjc-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-s390-net-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-ide-use-memdup_user.patch net-dccp-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-net-wireless-prism54-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-usb-gadget-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-isdn-use-memdup_user.patch drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user.patch