linux-kernel - [git:media_tree/master] media: siano: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function

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Date:   Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:42:18 +0000
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To:     linuxtv-commits@...uxtv.org
Cc:     Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
Subject: [git:media_tree/master] media: siano: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function

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Subject: media: siano: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function
Author:  Wen Yang <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
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 <wen.yang99@....com.cn>
CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@...il.com>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>

 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,