[PATCH v2 10/35] macintosh: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

Fuqian Huang huangfq.daxian at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 02:28:21 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)

 drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c b/drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c
index 75482eeab2c4..5d14bebfb58f 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c
@@ -789,7 +789,8 @@ adbhid_input_register(int id, int default_id, int original_handler_id,
 
 	switch (default_id) {
 	case ADB_KEYBOARD:
-		hid->keycode = kmalloc(sizeof(adb_to_linux_keycodes), GFP_KERNEL);
+		hid->keycode = kmemdup(adb_to_linux_keycodes,
+			sizeof(adb_to_linux_keycodes), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!hid->keycode) {
 			err = -ENOMEM;
 			goto fail;
@@ -797,8 +798,6 @@ adbhid_input_register(int id, int default_id, int original_handler_id,
 
 		sprintf(hid->name, "ADB keyboard");
 
-		memcpy(hid->keycode, adb_to_linux_keycodes, sizeof(adb_to_linux_keycodes));
-
 		switch (original_handler_id) {
 		default:
 			keyboard_type = "<unknown>";
-- 
2.11.0



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