linux/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci
Nicolas Palix 034174598b Coccinelle: Add api/memdup_user
Use kmemdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation
This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Palix <npalix@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-08-31 11:37:54 +02:00

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/// Use kmemdup_user rather than duplicating its implementation
/// This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives
///
// Confidence: High
// Copyright: (C) 2010 Nicolas Palix, DIKU. GPLv2.
// Copyright: (C) 2010 Julia Lawall, DIKU. GPLv2.
// Copyright: (C) 2010 Gilles Muller, INRIA/LiP6. GPLv2.
// URL: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/
// Comments:
// Options: -no_includes -include_headers
virtual patch
@@
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
- ...+>
- }