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Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
position p;
identifier l1,l2;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
+  to = memdup_user(from,size);
   if (
-      to==NULL
+      IS_ERR(to)
                 || ...) {
   <+... when != goto l1;
-  -ENOMEM
+  PTR_ERR(to)
   ...+>
   }
-  if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) {
-    <+... when != goto l2;
-    -EFAULT
-    ...+>
-  }
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Julia Lawall authored and davem330 committed May 31, 2010
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11 changes: 3 additions & 8 deletions net/can/raw.c
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Expand Up @@ -436,14 +436,9 @@ static int raw_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,

if (count > 1) {
/* filter does not fit into dfilter => alloc space */
filter = kmalloc(optlen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!filter)
return -ENOMEM;

if (copy_from_user(filter, optval, optlen)) {
kfree(filter);
return -EFAULT;
}
filter = memdup_user(optval, optlen);
if (IS_ERR(filter))
return PTR_ERR(filter);
} else if (count == 1) {
if (copy_from_user(&sfilter, optval, sizeof(sfilter)))
return -EFAULT;
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