Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user()

From: Tvrtko Ursulin
Date: Tue Sep 02 2025 - 04:58:54 EST



On 02/09/2025 09:10, Thorsten Blum wrote:
Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user() to
improve and simplify set_context_image(), and to silence the following
Coccinelle/coccicheck warning reported by memdup_user.cocci:

WARNING opportunity for memdup_user

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Resending this (with updated patch subject and description) because the
CI logs [1] from my first submission [2] about a year ago are no longer
available.

[1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/139319/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240925141750.51198-1-thorsten.blum@xxxxxxxxx/
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c | 12 +++---------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
index 15835952352e..ed6599694835 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -2158,18 +2158,12 @@ static int set_context_image(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
goto out_ce;
}
- state = kmalloc(ce->engine->context_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!state) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ state = memdup_user(u64_to_user_ptr(user.image), ce->engine->context_size);
+ if (IS_ERR(state)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(state);
goto out_ce;
}
- if (copy_from_user(state, u64_to_user_ptr(user.image),
- ce->engine->context_size)) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
- goto out_state;
- }
-
shmem_state = shmem_create_from_data(ce->engine->name,
state, ce->engine->context_size);
if (IS_ERR(shmem_state)) {

LGTM.

Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Note however that CI is not picking up external patches these days, so I will need to re-send it for you. Once it passes I will merge it but if I forget feel free to ping.

Regards,

Tvrtko