Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: use memdup_user

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Use memdup_user() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> +++ b/drivers/spi/spidev.c
> @@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ static struct spi_ioc_transfer *
>  spidev_get_ioc_message(unsigned int cmd, struct spi_ioc_transfer __user *u_ioc,
>                 unsigned *n_ioc)
>  {
> -       struct spi_ioc_transfer *ioc;
>         u32     tmp;
>
>         /* Check type, command number and direction */
> @@ -342,14 +341,7 @@ spidev_get_ioc_message(unsigned int cmd, struct spi_ioc_transfer __user *u_ioc,
>                 return NULL;
>
>         /* copy into scratch area */
> -       ioc = kmalloc(tmp, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (!ioc)
> -               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -       if (__copy_from_user(ioc, u_ioc, tmp)) {

Note that as memdup_user() calls copy_from_user(), it repeats the access_ok()
check already done by spidev_ioctl().

> -               kfree(ioc);
> -               return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> -       }
> -       return ioc;
> +       return memdup_user(u_ioc, tmp);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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