From: Hollis Blanchard Fix a user pointer deref, found by the Stanford checker. 25-akpm/drivers/media/video/zoran_procfs.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/media/video/zoran_procfs.c~zoran_procfs-copy-user-fix drivers/media/video/zoran_procfs.c --- 25/drivers/media/video/zoran_procfs.c~zoran_procfs-copy-user-fix Tue May 27 15:50:07 2003 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/media/video/zoran_procfs.c Tue May 27 15:50:07 2003 @@ -119,7 +119,10 @@ static int zoran_write_proc(struct file printk(KERN_ERR "%s: write_proc: can not allocate memory\n", zr->name); return -ENOMEM; } - memcpy(string, buffer, count); + if (copy_from_user(string, buffer, count)) { + vfree(string); + return -EFAULT; + } string[count] = 0; DEBUG2(printk(KERN_INFO "%s: write_proc: name=%s count=%lu data=%x\n", zr->name, file->f_dentry->d_name.name, count, (int) data)); ldelim = " \t\n"; _