From: Fuqian Huang
> Sent: 03 July 2019 14:16
>
> kmemdup is introduced to duplicate a region of memory in a neat way.
> Rather than kmalloc/kzalloc + memset, 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 + memset.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fuqian Huang <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c | 13 ++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> index 17124254d897..0e340e105c3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_core.c
> @@ -1261,19 +1261,18 @@ static int __init ibmphp_init(void)
>
> info(DRIVER_DESC " version: " DRIVER_VERSION "\n");
>
> - ibmphp_pci_bus = kmalloc(sizeof(*ibmphp_pci_bus), GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!ibmphp_pci_bus) {
> - rc = -ENOMEM;
> - goto exit;
> - }
> -
> bus = pci_find_bus(0, 0);
> if (!bus) {
> err("Can't find the root pci bus, can not continue\n");
> rc = -ENODEV;
> goto error;
> }
> - memcpy(ibmphp_pci_bus, bus, sizeof(*ibmphp_pci_bus));
> +
> + ibmphp_pci_bus = kmemdup(bus, sizeof(*ibmphp_pci_bus), GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ibmphp_pci_bus) {
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
> + goto exit;
> + }
Not sure why I even looked as this...
But the error path if pci_find_bus() fails is now wrong.
David
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