Switching to memdup_user() overwrites the allocated memory only once,
whereas kzalloc() followed by copy_from_user() initializes the allocated
memory to zero and then immediately overwrites it.
Fixes the following Coccinelle/coccicheck warning reported by
memdup_user.cocci:
WARNING opportunity for memdup_user
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240705075900.424100-2-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
goto err;
}
- name = kzalloc(init.namelen, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!name) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
+ name = memdup_user(u64_to_user_ptr(init.name), init.namelen);
+ if (IS_ERR(name)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(name);
goto err;
}
- if (copy_from_user(name, (void __user *)(uintptr_t)init.name, init.namelen)) {
- err = -EFAULT;
- goto err_name;
- }
-
if (!fl->cctx->remote_heap) {
err = fastrpc_remote_heap_alloc(fl, fl->sctx->dev, init.memlen,
&fl->cctx->remote_heap);