Re: [PATCH] fs: omfs: use kmemdup() rather than kmalloc+memcpy

From: Alex Dewar
Date: Wed Sep 09 2020 - 15:04:22 EST


On 24/08/2020 22:17, Alex Dewar wrote:
Issue identified with Coccinelle.
Gentle ping?

Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/omfs/inode.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/omfs/inode.c b/fs/omfs/inode.c
index b76ec6b88ded..8867cefa79cf 100644
--- a/fs/omfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/omfs/inode.c
@@ -363,12 +363,11 @@ static int omfs_get_imap(struct super_block *sb)
bh = sb_bread(sb, block++);
if (!bh)
goto nomem_free;
- *ptr = kmalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ *ptr = kmemdup(bh->b_data, sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!*ptr) {
brelse(bh);
goto nomem_free;
}
- memcpy(*ptr, bh->b_data, sb->s_blocksize);
if (count < sb->s_blocksize)
memset((void *)*ptr + count, 0xff,
sb->s_blocksize - count);