linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/18] aic7xxx: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy

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Date:	Mon, 26 May 2014 17:21:21 +0200
From:	Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@...6.fr>
To:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Cc:	benoit.taine@...6.fr,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/18] aic7xxx: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy

This issue was reported by coccicheck using the semantic patch 
at scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci

Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@...6.fr>
---
Tested by compilation without errors.

 drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c |    4 ++--
 drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
index 0bcacf7..01353b1 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
@@ -9494,10 +9494,10 @@ ahd_loadseq(struct ahd_softc *ahd)
 	if (cs_count != 0) {
 
 		cs_count *= sizeof(struct cs);
-		ahd->critical_sections = kmalloc(cs_count, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		ahd->critical_sections = kmemdup(cs_table, cs_count,
+						 GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (ahd->critical_sections == NULL)
 			panic("ahd_loadseq: Could not malloc");
-		memcpy(ahd->critical_sections, cs_table, cs_count);
 	}
 	ahd_outb(ahd, SEQCTL0, PERRORDIS|FAILDIS|FASTMODE);
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
index 10172a3..f09337a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
@@ -6941,10 +6941,10 @@ ahc_loadseq(struct ahc_softc *ahc)
 	if (cs_count != 0) {
 
 		cs_count *= sizeof(struct cs);
-		ahc->critical_sections = kmalloc(cs_count, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		ahc->critical_sections = kmemdup(cs_table, cs_count,
+						 GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (ahc->critical_sections == NULL)
 			panic("ahc_loadseq: Could not malloc");
-		memcpy(ahc->critical_sections, cs_table, cs_count);
 	}
 	ahc_outb(ahc, SEQCTL, PERRORDIS|FAILDIS|FASTMODE);
 

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