Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: dw-mipi-dsi: Use kmemdup cf. kmalloc+memcpy

From: Neil Armstrong
Date: Mon Sep 21 2020 - 05:58:47 EST


On 20/09/2020 10:24, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:31 PM Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 2020-09-11 13:57, Neil Armstrong wrote:
>>> On 09/09/2020 21:02, Alex Dewar wrote:
>>>> kmemdup can be used instead of kmalloc+memcpy. Replace an occurrence of
>>>> this pattern.
>> Friendly ping?
>>>>
>>>> Issue identified with Coccinelle.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c | 4 +---
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
>>>> index 52f5c5a2ed64..7e9a62ad56e8 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/synopsys/dw-mipi-dsi.c
>>>> @@ -1049,12 +1049,10 @@ static void debugfs_create_files(void *data)
>>>> };
>>>> int i;
>>>>
>>>> - dsi->debugfs_vpg = kmalloc(sizeof(debugfs), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> + dsi->debugfs_vpg = kmemdup(debugfs, sizeof(debugfs), GFP_KERNEL);
>>>> if (!dsi->debugfs_vpg)
>>>> return;
>>>>
>>>> - memcpy(dsi->debugfs_vpg, debugfs, sizeof(debugfs));
>>>> -
>>>> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(debugfs); i++)
>>>> debugfs_create_file(dsi->debugfs_vpg[i].name, 0644,
>>>> dsi->debugfs, &dsi->debugfs_vpg[i],
>>>>
>>> Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Neil has commit rights, so I was assuming he'd push this to drm-misc-next.
> -Daniel
>

Hmm, I applied this already:
commit 33f290811d4c1a09c4e92f5bf0458525835dbcba
Author: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Sep 9 20:02:08 2020 +0100

drm/bridge: dw-mipi-dsi: Use kmemdup cf. kmalloc+memcpy

kmemdup can be used instead of kmalloc+memcpy. Replace an occurrence of
this pattern.

Issue identified with Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200909190213.156302-1-alex.dewar90@xxxxxxxxx

Neil