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security: ima: make use of kmemdup

Message ID 20190913163506.GA30916@SD (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series security: ima: make use of kmemdup | expand

Commit Message

Saiyam Doshi Sept. 13, 2019, 4:35 p.m. UTC 
Replace call to kmalloc followed by memcpy with a direct call
to kmemdup to achieve same functionality.

Signed-off-by: Saiyam Doshi <saiyamdoshi.in@gmail.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index 6df7f641ff66..1bd77c5eaeb7 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -262,15 +262,14 @@  static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 	struct ima_rule_entry *nentry;
 	int i, result;
 
-	nentry = kmalloc(sizeof(*nentry), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!nentry)
-		return NULL;
-
 	/*
 	 * Immutable elements are copied over as pointers and data; only
 	 * lsm rules can change
 	 */
-	memcpy(nentry, entry, sizeof(*nentry));
+	nentry = kmemdup(entry, sizeof(*nentry), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!nentry)
+		return NULL;
+
 	memset(nentry->lsm, 0, FIELD_SIZEOF(struct ima_rule_entry, lsm));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_LSM_RULES; i++) {