[PATCH -next] stm class: Switch to memdup_user_nul() helper
Jinjie Ruan
ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Tue Aug 20 19:17:43 PDT 2024
Ping.
On 2023/8/14 20:55, Ruan Jinjie wrote:
> Although stm_write() use the kbuf with its count, the last byte of
> kbuf is not initialized and there may be problems.
>
> Use memdup_user_nul() helper instead of open-coding to simplify the code
> and fix the above issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
> ---
> drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 12 +++---------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> index 534fbefc7f6a..342d0ab6e8ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
> @@ -645,15 +645,9 @@ static ssize_t stm_char_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> return err;
> }
>
> - kbuf = kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!kbuf)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> - err = copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count);
> - if (err) {
> - kfree(kbuf);
> - return -EFAULT;
> - }
> + kbuf = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
> + if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
> + return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
>
> pm_runtime_get_sync(&stm->dev);
>
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