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From: Eric Paris on 14 May 2010 16:10
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 21:30 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>
>
> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the
> allocated region.
>
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression from,to;
> expression flag,E1,E2;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> - to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag);
> + to = kstrdup(from, flag);
> ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \)
> if (to==NULL || ...) S
> ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \)
> - strcpy(to, from);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis(a)redhat.com>


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From: James Morris on 16 May 2010 19:10
On Fri, 14 May 2010, Julia Lawall wrote:

> From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>
>
> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the
> allocated region.
>

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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