The static analyser tool gave the following advice: ./fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4987:9-16: WARNING opportunity for kmemdup 4986 if (!iov) { → 4987 iov = kmalloc(sizeof(struct iovec) * args.iovcnt, GFP_NOFS); 4988 if (!iov) { 4989 unlock_extent(io_tree, start, lockend, &cached_state); 4990 btrfs_inode_unlock(inode, BTRFS_ILOCK_SHARED); 4991 ret = -ENOMEM; 4992 goto out_acct; 4993 } 4994 → 4995 memcpy(iov, iovstack, sizeof(struct iovec) * args.iovcnt); 4996 } Replacing kmalloc() + memcpy() with kmemdump() doesn't change semantics. Original code works without fault, so this is not a bug fix but proposed improvement. Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/198928/ Fixes: 34310c442e175 ("btrfs: add io_uring command for encoded reads (ENCODED_READ ioctl)") Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@xxxxxxxxx> --- v1: initial version. fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c index 3af8bb0c8d75..c2f769334d3c 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c @@ -4984,15 +4984,13 @@ static int btrfs_uring_encoded_read(struct io_uring_cmd *cmd, unsigned int issue * undo this. */ if (!iov) { - iov = kmalloc(sizeof(struct iovec) * args.iovcnt, GFP_NOFS); + iov = kmemdup(iovstack, sizeof(struct iovec) * args.iovcnt, GFP_NOFS); if (!iov) { unlock_extent(io_tree, start, lockend, &cached_state); btrfs_inode_unlock(inode, BTRFS_ILOCK_SHARED); ret = -ENOMEM; goto out_acct; } - - memcpy(iov, iovstack, sizeof(struct iovec) * args.iovcnt); } count = min_t(u64, iov_iter_count(&iter), disk_io_size); -- 2.43.0