Re: [PATCH 4/5] IB/hfi1: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation in hfi1_user_sdma_process_request()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Feb 13 2017 - 05:54:32 EST


On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:32:59AM -0500, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 02/10/2017 04:04 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:01:55 +0100
> >
> >Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
> >duplicate source code.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for the patch, but this one is already taken care of along
> with other similar uses of kmalloc/copy:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=148656088729538&w=2
>

Michael's patch doesn't change user_sdma_free_request() so it introduces
a kfreeing an error pointer bug.

regards,
dan carpenter