linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] firmware: vpd: use kdtrndup when copying section key

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Date:   Wed, 24 May 2017 10:13:44 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@...gle.com>,
        Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] firmware: vpd: use kdtrndup when copying section key

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> Instead of open-coding kstrndup with kzalloc + memcpy, let's use
> the helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>

> ---
>  drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
> index 23a24a6d02c2..acf3f3cdc3f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/vpd.c
> @@ -118,14 +118,13 @@ static int vpd_section_attrib_add(const u8 *key, s32 key_len,
>         info = kzalloc(sizeof(*info), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!info)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
> -       info->key = kzalloc(key_len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> +       info->key = kstrndup(key, key_len, GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!info->key) {
>                 ret = -ENOMEM;
>                 goto free_info;
>         }
>
> -       memcpy(info->key, key, key_len);
> -
>         sysfs_bin_attr_init(&info->bin_attr);
>         info->bin_attr.attr.name = info->key;
>         info->bin_attr.attr.mode = 0444;
> --
> 2.13.0.219.gdb65acc882-goog
>