On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Dhere, Chaitanya (C.) wrote:
> This patch replaces kzalloc and copy_from_user with memdup_user call
> This change was detected with coccinelle tool
>
> Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Dhere <cvija...@visteon.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c | 11 +++--------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> index 85e74d1..85b5567 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> @@ -2368,14 +2368,9 @@ ll_file_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> unsigned long arg)
> struct hsm_state_set *hss;
> int rc;
>
> - hss = kzalloc(sizeof(*hss), GFP_NOFS);
> - if (!hss)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> - if (copy_from_user(hss, (char *)arg, sizeof(*hss))) {
> - OBD_FREE_PTR(hss);
> - return -EFAULT;
> - }
> + hss = memdup_user((char *)arg, sizeof(*hss));
memdup_user will use the flag GFP_KERNEL, ie (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO |
__GFP_FS), rather than the flag GFP_NOFS, ie (__GFP_WAIT | __GFP_IO), that
is specified. I don't know if this is a problem here.
julia
> + if (IS_ERR(hss))
> + return PTR_ERR(hss);
>
> rc = ll_hsm_state_set(inode, hss);
>
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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