[PATCH v2 03/35] powerpc: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

Fuqian Huang huangfq.daxian at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 02:26:43 AEST 2019


kmemdup is introduced to duplicate a region of memory in a neat way.
Rather than kmalloc/kzalloc + memcpy, 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 + memcpy.

Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <huangfq.daxian at gmail.com>
---
Changes in v2:
  - Fix a typo in commit message (memset -> memcpy)

 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
index 7488e40f5e47..20fe7b79e09e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
@@ -383,11 +383,10 @@ void queue_hotplug_event(struct pseries_hp_errorlog *hp_errlog)
 	struct pseries_hp_work *work;
 	struct pseries_hp_errorlog *hp_errlog_copy;
 
-	hp_errlog_copy = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pseries_hp_errorlog),
+	hp_errlog_copy = kmemdup(hp_errlog, sizeof(struct pseries_hp_errorlog),
 				 GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hp_errlog_copy)
 	      return;
-	memcpy(hp_errlog_copy, hp_errlog, sizeof(struct pseries_hp_errorlog));
 
 	work = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pseries_hp_work), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (work) {
-- 
2.11.0



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