From: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 0f4bb10857e22a657e6c8cca5d1d54b641e94628 ]
kmemdup has implemented the function that kmalloc() + memcpy().
We prefer to kmemdup rather than code opened implementation.
This issue was detected with the help of coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
index ec759f43c634..3ab72d653737 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c
@@ -226,10 +226,9 @@ static int smsusb_sendrequest(void *context, void *buffer, size_t size)
return -ENOENT;
}
- phdr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ phdr = kmemdup(buffer, size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!phdr)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(phdr, buffer, size);
pr_debug("sending %s(%d) size: %d\n",
smscore_translate_msg(phdr->msg_type), phdr->msg_type,
--
2.24.0
