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* [PATCH] message/fusion/mptbase.c: Use kmemdup instead of memcpy and kmalloc
@ 2019-05-22  9:53 Bharath Vedartham
  2019-05-22 11:48 ` Joe Perches
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bharath Vedartham @ 2019-05-22  9:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: sathya.prakash, chaitra.basappa
  Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl, linux-scsi, linux-kernel

Replace kmalloc + memcpy with kmemdup.

This was reported by coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
index d8882b0..37876a7 100644
--- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
+++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
@@ -6001,13 +6001,12 @@ mpt_findImVolumes(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
 	if (mpt_config(ioc, &cfg) != 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	mem = kmalloc(iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL);
+	mem = kmemdup((u8 *)pIoc2, iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!mem) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(mem, (u8 *)pIoc2, iocpage2sz);
 	ioc->raid_data.pIocPg2 = (IOCPage2_t *) mem;
 
 	mpt_read_ioc_pg_3(ioc);
-- 
2.7.4


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* Re: [PATCH] message/fusion/mptbase.c: Use kmemdup instead of memcpy and kmalloc
  2019-05-22  9:53 [PATCH] message/fusion/mptbase.c: Use kmemdup instead of memcpy and kmalloc Bharath Vedartham
@ 2019-05-22 11:48 ` Joe Perches
  2019-05-22 15:56   ` Bharath Vedartham
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Joe Perches @ 2019-05-22 11:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bharath Vedartham, sathya.prakash, chaitra.basappa
  Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl, linux-scsi, linux-kernel

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:23 +0530, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
> Replace kmalloc + memcpy with kmemdup.
> This was reported by coccinelle.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
[]
> @@ -6001,13 +6001,12 @@ mpt_findImVolumes(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
>  	if (mpt_config(ioc, &cfg) != 0)
>  		goto out;
>  
> -	mem = kmalloc(iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	mem = kmemdup((u8 *)pIoc2, iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL);

You should remove the unnecessary cast here.



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* Re: [PATCH] message/fusion/mptbase.c: Use kmemdup instead of memcpy and kmalloc
  2019-05-22 11:48 ` Joe Perches
@ 2019-05-22 15:56   ` Bharath Vedartham
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bharath Vedartham @ 2019-05-22 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Joe Perches
  Cc: sathya.prakash, chaitra.basappa, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl, linux-scsi,
	linux-kernel

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 04:48:33AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 15:23 +0530, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
> > Replace kmalloc + memcpy with kmemdup.
> > This was reported by coccinelle.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> []
> > @@ -6001,13 +6001,12 @@ mpt_findImVolumes(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc)
> >  	if (mpt_config(ioc, &cfg) != 0)
> >  		goto out;
> >  
> > -	mem = kmalloc(iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	mem = kmemdup((u8 *)pIoc2, iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> You should remove the unnecessary cast here.
> 
>
Yes! I will change this in v2.

Thanks
Bharath

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