[PATCH] strndup_user: convert module
Change hand-coded userspace string copying to strndup_user.
Signed-off-by: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index fb40429..54623c7 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -1572,7 +1572,6 @@
exportindex, modindex, obsparmindex, infoindex, gplindex,
crcindex, gplcrcindex, versindex, pcpuindex, gplfutureindex,
gplfuturecrcindex;
- long arglen;
struct module *mod;
long err = 0;
void *percpu = NULL, *ptr = NULL; /* Stops spurious gcc warning */
@@ -1691,23 +1690,11 @@
}
/* Now copy in args */
- arglen = strlen_user(uargs);
- if (!arglen) {
- err = -EFAULT;
+ args = strndup_user(uargs, ~0UL >> 1);
+ if (IS_ERR(args)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(args);
goto free_hdr;
}
- args = kmalloc(arglen, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!args) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto free_hdr;
- }
- if (copy_from_user(args, uargs, arglen) != 0) {
- err = -EFAULT;
- goto free_mod;
- }
-
- /* Userspace could have altered the string after the strlen_user() */
- args[arglen - 1] = '\0';
if (find_module(mod->name)) {
err = -EEXIST;