[PATCH] ima: use kmemdup() rather than kmalloc+memcpy

From: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ima: use kmemdup() rather than kmalloc+memcpy
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 22:21:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200824212102.602559-1-alex.dewar90@gmail.com> (raw)

Issue identified with Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index b4de33074b37..ea917a787d9d 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 	struct ima_rule_entry *nentry;
 	int i;
 
-	nentry = kmalloc(sizeof(*nentry), GFP_KERNEL);
+	nentry = kmemdup(entry, sizeof(*nentry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!nentry)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ static struct ima_rule_entry *ima_lsm_copy_rule(struct ima_rule_entry *entry)
 	 * Immutable elements are copied over as pointers and data; only
 	 * lsm rules can change
 	 */
-	memcpy(nentry, entry, sizeof(*nentry));
 	memset(nentry->lsm, 0, sizeof_field(struct ima_rule_entry, lsm));
 
 	for (i = 0; i < MAX_LSM_RULES; i++) {
-- 
2.28.0

