This issue was reported by coccicheck using the semantic patch at scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@xxxxxxx> --- Tested by compilation without errors. drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c | 4 ++-- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c index 0bcacf7..01353b1 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c @@ -9494,10 +9494,10 @@ ahd_loadseq(struct ahd_softc *ahd) if (cs_count != 0) { cs_count *= sizeof(struct cs); - ahd->critical_sections = kmalloc(cs_count, GFP_ATOMIC); + ahd->critical_sections = kmemdup(cs_table, cs_count, + GFP_ATOMIC); if (ahd->critical_sections == NULL) panic("ahd_loadseq: Could not malloc"); - memcpy(ahd->critical_sections, cs_table, cs_count); } ahd_outb(ahd, SEQCTL0, PERRORDIS|FAILDIS|FASTMODE); diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c index 10172a3..f09337a 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c @@ -6941,10 +6941,10 @@ ahc_loadseq(struct ahc_softc *ahc) if (cs_count != 0) { cs_count *= sizeof(struct cs); - ahc->critical_sections = kmalloc(cs_count, GFP_ATOMIC); + ahc->critical_sections = kmemdup(cs_table, cs_count, + GFP_ATOMIC); if (ahc->critical_sections == NULL) panic("ahc_loadseq: Could not malloc"); - memcpy(ahc->critical_sections, cs_table, cs_count); } ahc_outb(ahc, SEQCTL, PERRORDIS|FAILDIS|FASTMODE); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html