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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-05 16:05:24 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-05 16:05:24 -0700
commit7114f51fcb979f167ab5f625ac74059dcb1afc28 (patch)
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Merge branch 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull memdup_user() conversions from Al Viro: "A fairly self-contained series - hunting down open-coded memdup_user() and memdup_user_nul() instances" * 'work.memdup_user' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: bpf: don't open-code memdup_user() kimage_file_prepare_segments(): don't open-code memdup_user() ethtool: don't open-code memdup_user() do_ip_setsockopt(): don't open-code memdup_user() do_ipv6_setsockopt(): don't open-code memdup_user() irda: don't open-code memdup_user() xfrm_user_policy(): don't open-code memdup_user() ima_write_policy(): don't open-code memdup_user_nul() sel_write_validatetrans(): don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kexec_file.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec_file.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index b118735fea9d..766e7e4d3ad9 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -162,16 +162,10 @@ kimage_file_prepare_segments(struct kimage *image, int kernel_fd, int initrd_fd,
}
if (cmdline_len) {
- image->cmdline_buf = kzalloc(cmdline_len, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!image->cmdline_buf) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
-
- ret = copy_from_user(image->cmdline_buf, cmdline_ptr,
- cmdline_len);
- if (ret) {
- ret = -EFAULT;
+ image->cmdline_buf = memdup_user(cmdline_ptr, cmdline_len);
+ if (IS_ERR(image->cmdline_buf)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(image->cmdline_buf);
+ image->cmdline_buf = NULL;
goto out;
}