[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "Drivers: hv: utils: use memdup_user in hvt_op_write" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Drivers: hv: utils: use memdup_user in hvt_op_write

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 1ba1d9f51ad3f6253fbe5f3311d18edda3759d71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:01:37 -0800
Subject: Drivers: hv: utils: use memdup_user in hvt_op_write

commit b00359642c2427da89dc8f77daa2c9e8a84e6d76 upstream.

Use memdup_user to handle OOM.

Fixes: 14b50f80c32d ('Drivers: hv: util: introduce hv_utils_transport abstraction')

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf at aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
index 1505ee6..24b2766 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_utils_transport.c
@@ -80,11 +80,10 @@ static ssize_t hvt_op_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,

 	hvt = container_of(file->f_op, struct hvutil_transport, fops);

-	inmsg = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (copy_from_user(inmsg, buf, count)) {
-		kfree(inmsg);
-		return -EFAULT;
-	}
+	inmsg = memdup_user(buf, count);
+	if (IS_ERR(inmsg))
+		return PTR_ERR(inmsg);
+
 	if (hvt->on_msg(inmsg, count))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	kfree(inmsg);
--
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