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* [PATCH] fs: pstore: Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup
@ 2013-03-09 11:57 Alexandru Gheorghiu
  2013-03-10 23:23 ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Alexandru Gheorghiu @ 2013-03-09 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Anton Vorontsov
  Cc: Colin Cross, Kees Cook, Tony Luck, linux-kernel, Alexandru Gheorghiu

Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with a single call to kmemdup.
This patch was found using coccicheck.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com>
---
 fs/pstore/ram.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
index 288f068..38babb3 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
@@ -156,10 +156,9 @@ static ssize_t ramoops_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
 	time->tv_nsec = 0;
 
 	size = persistent_ram_old_size(prz);
-	*buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	*buf = kmemdup(persistent_ram_old(prz), size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (*buf == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memcpy(*buf, persistent_ram_old(prz), size);
 
 	return size;
 }
-- 
1.7.9.5


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* Re: [PATCH] fs: pstore: Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup
  2013-03-09 11:57 [PATCH] fs: pstore: Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup Alexandru Gheorghiu
@ 2013-03-10 23:23 ` Kees Cook
  2013-03-19  2:41   ` Anton Vorontsov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2013-03-10 23:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexandru Gheorghiu; +Cc: Anton Vorontsov, Colin Cross, Tony Luck, LKML

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Alexandru Gheorghiu
<gheorghiuandru@gmail.com> wrote:
> Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with a single call to kmemdup.
> This patch was found using coccicheck.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/pstore/ram.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/pstore/ram.c b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> index 288f068..38babb3 100644
> --- a/fs/pstore/ram.c
> +++ b/fs/pstore/ram.c
> @@ -156,10 +156,9 @@ static ssize_t ramoops_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
>         time->tv_nsec = 0;
>
>         size = persistent_ram_old_size(prz);
> -       *buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       *buf = kmemdup(persistent_ram_old(prz), size, GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (*buf == NULL)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> -       memcpy(*buf, persistent_ram_old(prz), size);
>
>         return size;
>  }

Looks fine to me. Thanks!

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

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* Re: [PATCH] fs: pstore: Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup
  2013-03-10 23:23 ` Kees Cook
@ 2013-03-19  2:41   ` Anton Vorontsov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Anton Vorontsov @ 2013-03-19  2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook; +Cc: Alexandru Gheorghiu, Colin Cross, Tony Luck, LKML

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 04:23:01PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Alexandru Gheorghiu
> <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with a single call to kmemdup.
> > This patch was found using coccicheck.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com>
[...]
> Looks fine to me. Thanks!
> 
> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

Applied to linux-pstore.git, thanks a lot!

Anton

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