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[PATCH] strndup_user: convert module
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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>
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Davi Arnaut authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 24, 2006
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19 changes: 3 additions & 16 deletions kernel/module.c
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Expand Up @@ -1572,7 +1572,6 @@ static struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
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 */
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}

/* Now copy in args */
arglen = strlen_user(uargs);
if (!arglen) {
err = -EFAULT;
goto free_hdr;
}
args = kmalloc(arglen, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!args) {
err = -ENOMEM;
args = strndup_user(uargs, ~0UL >> 1);
if (IS_ERR(args)) {
err = PTR_ERR(args);
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;
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