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Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: replace kmalloc + memcpy with kmemdup

From: Christophe Jaillet <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-26 17:50:44
Also in: kernel-janitors, lkml

Le 26/03/2018 à 19:16, Colin King a écrit :
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

Replace several allocation and memcpys with kmemdup and add in some
missing memory allocation failure checks.  Also fix an incorrect
-EFAULT return with -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
---
  drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++------------
  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
index 9b9b86654958..8fd367f87fa5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
[...]
  
  	hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid_len = conn_attr->ssid_len;
  	if (conn_attr->ssid) {
-		hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid = kmalloc(conn_attr->ssid_len + 1,
+		hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid = kmemdup(conn_attr->ssid,
+						     conn_attr->ssid_len + 1,
  						     GFP_KERNEL);
  		if (!hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid) {
  			result = -ENOMEM;
  			goto error;
  		}
-		memcpy(hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid,
-		       conn_attr->ssid,
-		       conn_attr->ssid_len);
 >               hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid[conn_attr->ssid_len] = '\0';

I don't know if it is an issue, but now the memcpy is 1 more byte 
(conn_attr->ssid_len   vs   conn_attr->ssid_len + 1)

kmemdup_nul(conn_attr->ssid, conn_attr->ssid_len, GFP_KERNEL)
and remove hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid[conn_attr->ssid_len] = '\0'  ?

CJ

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