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From: Julia Lawall on 22 May 2010 04:30
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)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(a)diku.dk>

---
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c
index 8d1190c..2a62c60 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/isl_ioctl.c
@@ -2751,14 +2751,9 @@ prism54_hostapd(struct net_device *ndev, struct iw_point *p)
p->length > PRISM2_HOSTAPD_MAX_BUF_SIZE || !p->pointer)
return -EINVAL;

- param = kmalloc(p->length, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (param == NULL)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- if (copy_from_user(param, p->pointer, p->length)) {
- kfree(param);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
+ param = memdup_user(p->pointer, p->length);
+ if (IS_ERR(param))
+ return PTR_ERR(param);

switch (param->cmd) {
case PRISM2_SET_ENCRYPTION:
--
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