From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: + fs-autofs4-use-memdup_user.patch added to -mm tree Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:36:53 -0700 Message-ID: <201005252236.o4PMaslI019084@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:40029 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758535Ab0EYWjr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 18:39:47 -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, raven@themaw.net The patch titled fs/autofs4: use memdup_user has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-autofs4-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: fs/autofs4: use memdup_user From: Julia Lawall Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. Elimination of the variable ads, which is no longer useful. 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: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c | 13 ++----------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c~fs-autofs4-use-memdup_user fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c --- a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c~fs-autofs4-use-memdup_user +++ a/fs/autofs4/dev-ioctl.c @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ static int check_dev_ioctl_version(int c */ static struct autofs_dev_ioctl *copy_dev_ioctl(struct autofs_dev_ioctl __user *in) { - struct autofs_dev_ioctl tmp, *ads; + struct autofs_dev_ioctl tmp; if (copy_from_user(&tmp, in, sizeof(tmp))) return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); @@ -103,16 +103,7 @@ static struct autofs_dev_ioctl *copy_dev if (tmp.size < sizeof(tmp)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - ads = kmalloc(tmp.size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!ads) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - - if (copy_from_user(ads, in, tmp.size)) { - kfree(ads); - return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); - } - - return ads; + return memdup_user(in, tmp.size); } static inline void free_dev_ioctl(struct autofs_dev_ioctl *param) _ 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