Jan 22 2012

Staging: bcm: Use memdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation 

Author: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci.

More information about semantic patching is available at
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c | 37 ++++++++++++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
index 8bf3f57..cf30592 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/Bcmchar.c
@@ -728,14 +728,10 @@ static long bcm_char_ioctl(struct file *filp, UINT cmd, ULONG arg)
 		if (IoBuffer.InputLength > MAX_CNTL_PKT_SIZE)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		pvBuffer = kmalloc(IoBuffer.InputLength, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pvBuffer)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(pvBuffer, IoBuffer.InputBuffer, IoBuffer.InputLength)) {
-			kfree(pvBuffer);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		pvBuffer = memdup_user(IoBuffer.InputBuffer,
+				       IoBuffer.InputLength);
+		if (IS_ERR(pvBuffer))
+			return PTR_ERR(pvBuffer);
 
 		down(&Adapter->LowPowerModeSync);
 		Status = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(Adapter->lowpower_mode_wait_queue,
@@ -1140,15 +1136,10 @@ cntrlEnd:
 		if (IoBuffer.InputLength < sizeof(ULONG) * 2)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		pvBuffer = kmalloc(IoBuffer.InputLength, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pvBuffer)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		/* Get WrmBuffer structure */
-		if (copy_from_user(pvBuffer, IoBuffer.InputBuffer, IoBuffer.InputLength)) {
-			kfree(pvBuffer);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		pvBuffer = memdup_user(IoBuffer.InputBuffer,
+				       IoBuffer.InputLength);
+		if (IS_ERR(pvBuffer))
+			return PTR_ERR(pvBuffer);
 
 		pBulkBuffer = (PBULKWRM_BUFFER)pvBuffer;
 
@@ -1310,14 +1301,10 @@ cntrlEnd:
 			return STATUS_FAILURE;
 		}
 
-		pReadData = kzalloc(stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!pReadData)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		if (copy_from_user(pReadData, stNVMReadWrite.pBuffer, stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes)) {
-			kfree(pReadData);
-			return -EFAULT;
-		}
+		pReadData = memdup_user(stNVMReadWrite.pBuffer,
+					stNVMReadWrite.uiNumBytes);
+		if (IS_ERR(pReadData))
+			return PTR_ERR(pReadData);
 
 		do_gettimeofday(&tv0);
 		if (IOCTL_BCM_NVM_READ == cmd) {

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