linux-kernel - [PATCH 13/18] drm/edid: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy

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

Date:	Mon, 26 May 2014 17:21:22 +0200
From:	Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@...6.fr>
To:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	benoit.taine@...6.fr, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 13/18] drm/edid: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy

This issue was reported by coccicheck using the semantic patch 
at scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci

Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@...6.fr>
---
Tested by compilation without errors.

 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
index 7a4fd2e..d74239f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -3228,10 +3228,9 @@ int drm_edid_to_speaker_allocation(struct edid *edid, u8 **sadb)
 
 			/* Speaker Allocation Data Block */
 			if (dbl == 3) {
-				*sadb = kmalloc(dbl, GFP_KERNEL);
+				*sadb = kmemdup(&db[1], dbl, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (!*sadb)
 					return -ENOMEM;
-				memcpy(*sadb, &db[1], dbl);
 				count = dbl;
 				break;
 			}

--
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/