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drivers/telephony/ixj.c: use memdup_user
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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: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Julia Lawall authored and torvalds committed May 27, 2010
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15 changes: 4 additions & 11 deletions drivers/telephony/ixj.c
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Expand Up @@ -5879,20 +5879,13 @@ static int ixj_build_cadence(IXJ *j, IXJ_CADENCE __user * cp)
static int ixj_build_filter_cadence(IXJ *j, IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE __user * cp)
{
IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE *lcp;
lcp = kmalloc(sizeof(IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE), GFP_KERNEL);
if (lcp == NULL) {
lcp = memdup_user(cp, sizeof(IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE));
if (IS_ERR(lcp)) {
if(ixjdebug & 0x0001) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate memory for cadence\n");
printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate memory for cadence or could not copy cadence to kernel\n");
}
return -ENOMEM;
return PTR_ERR(lcp);
}
if (copy_from_user(lcp, cp, sizeof(IXJ_FILTER_CADENCE))) {
if(ixjdebug & 0x0001) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Could not copy cadence to kernel\n");
}
kfree(lcp);
return -EFAULT;
}
if (lcp->filter > 5) {
if(ixjdebug & 0x0001) {
printk(KERN_INFO "Cadence out of range\n");
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