linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] scsi: aic7xxx: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function

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Date:   Thu, 6 Dec 2018 21:19:18 +0800
From:   Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
To:     Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>, jejb@...ux.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com
Cc:     linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        zhong.weidong@....com.cn, Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v2] scsi: aic7xxx: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function

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 <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
CC: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
CC: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
CC: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
CC: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
---
 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 9ee75c9a9aa1..3e72fac6d248 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
@@ -9438,10 +9438,10 @@ 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 f3362f4ab16e..8ea055a81ee8 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c
@@ -6901,10 +6901,10 @@ 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);
 
-- 
2.19.1