+ drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user.patch added to -mm tree

+ drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     drivers/staging/dream/camera: use memdup_user
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user.patch

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Subject: drivers/staging/dream/camera: use memdup_user
From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

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: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c |   45 +++++----------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c~drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c
--- a/drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c~drivers-staging-dream-camera-use-memdup_user
+++ a/drivers/staging/dream/camera/msm_vfe8x.c
@@ -644,17 +644,10 @@ static int vfe_config(struct msm_vfe_cfg
 		if (!axid)
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		axio =
-			kmalloc(sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config),
-				GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (!axio)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(axio, (void __user *)(vfecmd.value),
-			sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config))) {
-			kfree(axio);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		axio = memdup_user((void __user *)(vfecmd.value),
+				   sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config));
+		if (IS_ERR(axio))
+			return PTR_ERR(axio);
 
 		vfe_config_axi(OUTPUT_1, axid, axio);
 		vfe_axi_output_config(axio);
@@ -669,17 +662,10 @@ static int vfe_config(struct msm_vfe_cfg
 		if (!axid)
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		axio =
-			kmalloc(sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config),
-				GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (!axio)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(axio, (void __user *)(vfecmd.value),
-				sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config))) {
-			kfree(axio);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		axio = memdup_user((void __user *)(vfecmd.value),
+				   sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config));
+		if (IS_ERR(axio))
+			return PTR_ERR(axio);
 
 		vfe_config_axi(OUTPUT_2, axid, axio);
 
@@ -694,17 +680,10 @@ static int vfe_config(struct msm_vfe_cfg
 		if (!axid)
 			return -EFAULT;
 
-		axio =
-			kmalloc(sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config),
-				GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (!axio)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(axio, (void __user *)(vfecmd.value),
-			sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config))) {
-			kfree(axio);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		axio = memdup_user((void __user *)(vfecmd.value),
+				   sizeof(struct vfe_cmd_axi_output_config));
+		if (IS_ERR(axio))
+			return PTR_ERR(axio);
 
 		vfe_config_axi(OUTPUT_1_AND_2,
 			axid, axio);
_

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