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Message-ID: <ZUUfHqaGGxjYc0wH@debian>
Date:   Fri, 3 Nov 2023 09:26:06 -0700
From:   fan <nifan.cxl@...il.com>
To:     Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] mm/memory_hotplug: replace an open-coded
 kmemdup() in add_memory_resource()

On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 04:51:51PM -0600, Vishal Verma wrote:
> A review of the memmap_on_memory modifications to add_memory_resource()
> revealed an instance of an open-coded kmemdup(). Replace it with
> kmemdup().
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Fan Ni <fan.ni@...sung.com>

>  mm/memory_hotplug.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index f8d3e7427e32..6be7de9efa55 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1439,11 +1439,11 @@ int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res, mhp_t mhp_flags)
>  	if (mhp_flags & MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY) {
>  		if (mhp_supports_memmap_on_memory(size)) {
>  			mhp_altmap.free = memory_block_memmap_on_memory_pages();
> -			params.altmap = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vmem_altmap), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			params.altmap = kmemdup(&mhp_altmap,
> +						sizeof(struct vmem_altmap),
> +						GFP_KERNEL);
>  			if (!params.altmap)
>  				goto error;
> -
> -			memcpy(params.altmap, &mhp_altmap, sizeof(mhp_altmap));
>  		}
>  		/* fallback to not using altmap  */
>  	}
> 
> -- 
> 2.41.0
> 

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