linux-kernel - [PATCH] net: mpls: use kmemdup() to replace kmalloc + memcpy

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Message-Id: <1638434037-44171-1-git-send-email-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Date:   Thu,  2 Dec 2021 16:33:57 +0800
From:   Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: mpls: use kmemdup() to replace kmalloc + memcpy

Eliminate the follow coccicheck warning:

./net/mpls/af_mpls.c:1530:9-16: WARNING opportunity for kmemdup.

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@...ux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@...ux.alibaba.com>
---
 net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
index 48f75a5..38c8a1f 100644
--- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
+++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c
@@ -1527,10 +1527,9 @@ static int mpls_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int event)
 					rt->rt_nh_size;
 				struct mpls_route *orig = rt;
 
-				rt = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+				rt = kmemdup(orig, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (!rt)
 					return -ENOMEM;
-				memcpy(rt, orig, size);
 			}
 		}
 
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