kmemdup is introduced to duplicate a region of memory in a neat way. Rather than kmalloc/kzalloc + memset, which the programmer needs to write the size twice (sometimes lead to mistakes), kmemdup improves readability, leads to smaller code and also reduce the chances of mistakes. Suggestion to use kmemdup rather than using kmalloc/kzalloc + memset. Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 491f9ee4040e..d09040df7014 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1898,11 +1898,10 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, unlock_buffer(bs->bh); ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "cloning"); - s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS); + s->base = kmemdup(BHDR(bs->bh), bs->bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS); error = -ENOMEM; if (s->base == NULL) goto cleanup; - memcpy(s->base, BHDR(bs->bh), bs->bh->b_size); s->first = ENTRY(header(s->base)+1); header(s->base)->h_refcount = cpu_to_le32(1); s->here = ENTRY(s->base + offset); -- 2.11.0
