linux-kernel - [PATCH] security/keys/*: user kmemdup()

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Message-ID: <20061029200316.GD4900@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:03:16 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Subject: [PATCH] security/keys/*: user kmemdup()

From: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 security/keys/key.c     |    4 +---
 security/keys/keyring.c |    4 +---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/security/keys/key.c
+++ b/security/keys/key.c
@@ -290,11 +290,9 @@ struct key *key_alloc(struct key_type *t
 		goto no_memory_2;
 
 	if (desc) {
-		key->description = kmalloc(desclen, GFP_KERNEL);
+		key->description = kmemdup(desc, desclen, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!key->description)
 			goto no_memory_3;
-
-		memcpy(key->description, desc, desclen);
 	}
 
 	atomic_set(&key->usage, 1);
--- a/security/keys/keyring.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyring.c
@@ -706,12 +706,10 @@ int __key_link(struct key *keyring, stru
 				BUG_ON(size > PAGE_SIZE);
 
 				ret = -ENOMEM;
-				nklist = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+				nklist = kmemdup(klist, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (!nklist)
 					goto error2;
 
-				memcpy(nklist, klist, size);
-
 				/* replace matched key */
 				atomic_inc(&key->usage);
 				nklist->keys[loop] = key;

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