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From: frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [patch 7/8] [PATCH] qeth: Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region.
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:15:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100723091550.566471000@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100723091502.678949000@de.ibm.com

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From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
---

 drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c |   11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c	2010-07-22 10:22:37.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c	2010-07-22 10:22:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -3748,15 +3748,10 @@ int qeth_snmp_command(struct qeth_card *
 	/* skip 4 bytes (data_len struct member) to get req_len */
 	if (copy_from_user(&req_len, udata + sizeof(int), sizeof(int)))
 		return -EFAULT;
-	ureq = kmalloc(req_len+sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!ureq) {
+	ureq = memdup_user(udata, req_len + sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr));
+	if (IS_ERR(ureq)) {
 		QETH_CARD_TEXT(card, 2, "snmpnome");
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	if (copy_from_user(ureq, udata,
-			req_len + sizeof(struct qeth_snmp_ureq_hdr))) {
-		kfree(ureq);
-		return -EFAULT;
+		return PTR_ERR(ureq);
 	}
 	qinfo.udata_len = ureq->hdr.data_len;
 	qinfo.udata = kzalloc(qinfo.udata_len, GFP_KERNEL);


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-23  9:15 [patch 0/8] s390: qeth some more patches for 2.6.36 frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 1/8] [PATCH] qeth: IP address takeover flag setting frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 2/8] qeth: Clear mac_bits field when switching between Layer 2 and Layer 3 frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 3/8] [PATCH] qeth: serialize sysfs-triggered device configurations frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 4/8] [PATCH] qeth: avoid loop if ipa command response is missing frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 5/8] [PATCH] claw: A claw device is a group of just 2 ccw devices frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 6/8] [PATCH] qeth: return zero from reply callback functions frank.blaschka
2010-07-23  9:15 ` frank.blaschka [this message]
2010-07-23  9:15 ` [patch 8/8] [PATCH] qeth: avoid useless removal of multicast addresses frank.blaschka
2010-07-23 19:36 ` [patch 0/8] s390: qeth some more patches for 2.6.36 David Miller

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