linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup

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Message-ID: <20250925211736.81737-1-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:17:36 +0200
From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user

Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to
simplify and improve osnoise_cpus_write().

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rebase to apply to master and linux-next
- Explicitly include linux/string.h
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250905192116.554018-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev/
---
 kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index 337bc0eb5d71..ab0575a94be1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
 #include <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 #include "trace.h"
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
@@ -2325,12 +2326,9 @@ osnoise_cpus_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t count,
 	if (count < 1)
 		return 0;
 
-	buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	if (copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, count))
-		return -EFAULT;
+	buf = memdup_user(ubuf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(buf))
+		return PTR_ERR(buf);
 
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&osnoise_cpumask_new, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.51.0