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Subject: media: siano: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function Author: Wen Yang <[email protected]> Date: Thu Dec 6 07:29:10 2018 -0500 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 <[email protected]> CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> 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 be3634407f1f..2ffded08407b 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,
