On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 11:47:51PM +0530, Saurav Girepunje wrote: > Fixes coccicheck warning:WARNING opportunity for kmemdup in ioctl_linux.c > > Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 4 +--- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c > index 81d4255d1785..495fadd2b8c8 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c > @@ -585,14 +585,12 @@ static int rtw_set_wpa_ie(struct adapter *padapter, char *pie, unsigned short ie > } > > if (ielen) { > - buf = kzalloc(ielen, GFP_KERNEL); > + buf = kmemdup(pie, ielen, GFP_KERNEL); > if (!buf) { > ret = -ENOMEM; > goto exit; > } > > - memcpy(buf, pie, ielen); > - > /* dump */ > { > int i; > -- > 2.32.0 > > This patch never showed up on lore.kernel.org for some reason. Please resend and see if it was a mailing issue on your side... thanks, greg k-h