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[4.19,2/3] media: siano: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function

Message ID 20191127072210.30715-2-lee.jones@linaro.org
State New
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Series [4.19,1/3] ARM: 8904/1: skip nomap memblocks while finding the lowmem/highmem boundary | expand

Commit Message

Lee Jones Nov. 27, 2019, 7:22 a.m. UTC
From: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>


[ Upstream commit 0f4bb10857e22a657e6c8cca5d1d54b641e94628 ]

kmemdup has implemented the function that kmalloc() + memcpy().
We prefer to kmemdup rather than code opened implementation.

This issue was detected with the help of coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>

CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

---
 drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.24.0

Comments

Greg KH Nov. 27, 2019, 7:58 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 07:22:09AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> From: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>

> 

> [ Upstream commit 0f4bb10857e22a657e6c8cca5d1d54b641e94628 ]

> 

> kmemdup has implemented the function that kmalloc() + memcpy().

> We prefer to kmemdup rather than code opened implementation.

> 

> This issue was detected with the help of coccinelle.

> 

> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>

> CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>

> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

> ---

>  drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 3 +--

>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

> 

> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c

> index 3071d9bc77f4..38ea773eac97 100644

> --- a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c

> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c

> @@ -225,10 +225,9 @@ static int smsusb_sendrequest(void *context, void *buffer, size_t size)

>  		return -ENOENT;

>  	}

>  

> -	phdr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

> +	phdr = kmemdup(buffer, size, GFP_KERNEL);

>  	if (!phdr)

>  		return -ENOMEM;

> -	memcpy(phdr, buffer, size);

>  

>  	pr_debug("sending %s(%d) size: %d\n",

>  		  smscore_translate_msg(phdr->msg_type), phdr->msg_type,

> -- 

> 2.24.0

> 


Why does this patch qualify for stable inclusion?
Lee Jones Nov. 27, 2019, 9:52 a.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019, Greg KH wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 07:22:09AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:

> > From: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>

> > 

> > [ Upstream commit 0f4bb10857e22a657e6c8cca5d1d54b641e94628 ]

> > 

> > kmemdup has implemented the function that kmalloc() + memcpy().

> > We prefer to kmemdup rather than code opened implementation.

> > 

> > This issue was detected with the help of coccinelle.

> > 

> > Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>

> > CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>

> > CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

> > ---

> >  drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 3 +--

> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

> > 

> > diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c

> > index 3071d9bc77f4..38ea773eac97 100644

> > --- a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c

> > +++ b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c

> > @@ -225,10 +225,9 @@ static int smsusb_sendrequest(void *context, void *buffer, size_t size)

> >  		return -ENOENT;

> >  	}

> >  

> > -	phdr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);

> > +	phdr = kmemdup(buffer, size, GFP_KERNEL);

> >  	if (!phdr)

> >  		return -ENOMEM;

> > -	memcpy(phdr, buffer, size);

> >  

> >  	pr_debug("sending %s(%d) size: %d\n",

> >  		  smscore_translate_msg(phdr->msg_type), phdr->msg_type,

> 

> Why does this patch qualify for stable inclusion?


I'm guessing this question is rhetorical. :)

Please drop the patch.

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diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
index 3071d9bc77f4..38ea773eac97 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
@@ -225,10 +225,9 @@  static int smsusb_sendrequest(void *context, void *buffer, size_t size)
 		return -ENOENT;
 	}
 
-	phdr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	phdr = kmemdup(buffer, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!phdr)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memcpy(phdr, buffer, size);
 
 	pr_debug("sending %s(%d) size: %d\n",
 		  smscore_translate_msg(phdr->msg_type), phdr->msg_type,