Re: [PATCH] message/fusion/mptbase.c: Use kmemdup instead of memcpy and kmalloc

[Bharath Vedartham]

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