[PATCH 3/18] VMCI: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy

[Benoit Taine]

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/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c
index f3cdd90..d93b469 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_vmci/vmci_datagram.c
@@ -276,11 +276,10 @@ static int dg_dispatch_as_host(u32 context_id, struct vmci_datagram *dg)
 		}
 
 		/* We make a copy to enqueue. */
-		new_dg = kmalloc(dg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		new_dg = kmemdup(dg, dg_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (new_dg == NULL)
 			return VMCI_ERROR_NO_MEM;
 
-		memcpy(new_dg, dg, dg_size);
 		retval = vmci_ctx_enqueue_datagram(dg->dst.context, new_dg);
 		if (retval < VMCI_SUCCESS) {
 			kfree(new_dg);

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