linux-kernel - Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v2 1/4] coccinelle: api: extend memdup_user transformation with GFP_USER

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2007172255560.2837@hadrien>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 22:56:05 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v2 1/4] coccinelle: api: extend memdup_user
 transformation with GFP_USER

On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, Denis Efremov wrote:

> Match GFP_USER and optional __GFP_NOWARN allocations with
> memdup_user.cocci rule.
> Commit 6c2c97a24f09 ("memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER") switched
> memdup_user() from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_USER. In almost all cases it
> is still a good idea to recommend memdup_user() for GFP_KERNEL
> allocations. The motivation behind altering memdup_user() to GFP_USER:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/6/333
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>

Applied.

> ---
>  scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci b/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci
> index c809ab10bbce..cadcc2e87881 100644
> --- a/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci
> +++ b/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci
> @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ expression from,to,size;
>  identifier l1,l2;
>  @@
>
> --  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,GFP_KERNEL);
> +-  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)
> +		(size,\(GFP_KERNEL\|GFP_USER\|
> +		      \(GFP_KERNEL\|GFP_USER\)|__GFP_NOWARN\));
>  +  to = memdup_user(from,size);
>     if (
>  -      to==NULL
> @@ -43,7 +45,9 @@ position p;
>  statement S1,S2;
>  @@
>
> -*  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,GFP_KERNEL);
> +*  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)
> +		(size,\(GFP_KERNEL\|GFP_USER\|
> +		      \(GFP_KERNEL\|GFP_USER\)|__GFP_NOWARN\));
>     if (to==NULL || ...) S1
>     if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0)
>     S2
> --
> 2.26.2
>
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