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| author | Li Zefan | 2009-03-31 15:23:16 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700 |
| commit | 610a77e04a8d9fe8764dc484e2182fa251ce1cc2 (patch) | |
| tree | ec55b9b3698321c3e85cd649fa927554027c75d0 /include/linux | |
| parent | e2f17d9459aeccf4e013e31cbd741d6b1858eec4 (diff) | |
memdup_user(): introduce
I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows
kmalloc():
dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dst)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) {
kfree(dst);
return -EFAULT
}
memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code. With this new function, we
don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes. It
also produces smaller code and kernel text.
A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used. I'll
prepare a patchset to do this conversion.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/string.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/string.h b/include/linux/string.h index d18fc198aa2f..8852739f36df 100644 --- a/include/linux/string.h +++ b/include/linux/string.h @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/stddef.h> /* for NULL */ extern char *strndup_user(const char __user *, long); +extern void *memdup_user(const void __user *, size_t); /* * Include machine specific inline routines |