linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: dw-mipi-dsi: Use kmemdup cf. kmalloc+memcpy

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Message-ID: <78fd6e3a-6226-30b0-3bdd-84662d69ff88@baylibre.com>
Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:55:38 +0200
From:   Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Jonas Karlman <jonas@...boo.se>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...l.net>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Philippe Cornu <philippe.cornu@...com>,
        Yannick Fertré <yannick.fertre@...com>,
        Antonio Borneo <antonio.borneo@...com>,
        Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@...obroma-systems.com>,
        Angelo Ribeiro <Angelo.Ribeiro@...opsys.com>,
        Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: dw-mipi-dsi: Use kmemdup cf. kmalloc+memcpy

On 20/09/2020 10:24, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:31 PM Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-09-11 13:57, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>>> On 09/09/2020 21:02, Alex Dewar wrote:
>>>> kmemdup can be used instead of kmalloc+memcpy. Replace an occurrence of
>>>> this pattern.
>> Friendly ping?
>>>>
>>>> Issue identified with Coccinelle.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c | 4 +---
>>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
>>>> index 52f5c5a2ed64..7e9a62ad56e8 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
>>>> @@ -1049,12 +1049,10 @@ static void debugfs_create_files(void *data)
>>>>      };
>>>>      int i;
>>>>
>>>> -    dsi->debugfs_vpg = kmalloc(sizeof(debugfs), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> +    dsi->debugfs_vpg = kmemdup(debugfs, sizeof(debugfs), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>      if (!dsi->debugfs_vpg)
>>>>              return;
>>>>
>>>> -    memcpy(dsi->debugfs_vpg, debugfs, sizeof(debugfs));
>>>> -
>>>>      for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(debugfs); i++)
>>>>              debugfs_create_file(dsi->debugfs_vpg[i].name, 0644,
>>>>                                  dsi->debugfs, &dsi->debugfs_vpg[i],
>>>>
>>> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
> 
> Neil has commit rights, so I was assuming he'd push this to drm-misc-next.
> -Daniel
> 

Applying now,
Neil