linux-kernel - [PATCH] Staging: bcm: Use memdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:29:51 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Staging: bcm: Use memdup_user rather than duplicating its
 implementation

This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci.

More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c 2012-01-10 08:19:54.749655047 +0100
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c 2012-01-22 11:48:39.794793650 +0100
@@ -728,14 +728,10 @@ static long bcm_char_ioctl(struct file *
 		if (IoBuffer.InputLength > MAX_CNTL_PKT_SIZE)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		pvBuffer = kmalloc(IoBuffer.InputLength, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pvBuffer)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(pvBuffer, IoBuffer.InputBuffer, IoBuffer.InputLength)) {
-			kfree(pvBuffer);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		pvBuffer = memdup_user(IoBuffer.InputBuffer,
+				       IoBuffer.InputLength);
+		if (IS_ERR(pvBuffer))
+			return PTR_ERR(pvBuffer);
 
 		down(&Adapter->LowPowerModeSync);
 		Status = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(Adapter->lowpower_mode_wait_queue,
@@ -1140,15 +1136,10 @@ cntrlEnd:
 		if (IoBuffer.InputLength < sizeof(ULONG) * 2)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		pvBuffer = kmalloc(IoBuffer.InputLength, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pvBuffer)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		/* Get WrmBuffer structure */
-		if (copy_from_user(pvBuffer, IoBuffer.InputBuffer, IoBuffer.InputLength)) {
-			kfree(pvBuffer);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		pvBuffer = memdup_user(IoBuffer.InputBuffer,
+				       IoBuffer.InputLength);
+		if (IS_ERR(pvBuffer))
+			return PTR_ERR(pvBuffer);
 
 		pBulkBuffer = (PBULKWRM_BUFFER)pvBuffer;
 
@@ -1308,14 +1299,10 @@ cntrlEnd:
 			return STATUS_FAILURE;
 		}
 
-		pReadData = kzalloc(stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pReadData)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(pReadData, stNVMReadWrite.pBuffer, stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes)) {
-			kfree(pReadData);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		pReadData = memdup_user(stNVMReadWrite.pBuffer,
+					stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes);
+		if (IS_ERR(pReadData))
+			return PTR_ERR(pReadData);
 
 		do_gettimeofday(&tv0);
 		if (IOCTL_BCM_NVM_READ == cmd) {



--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/