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 <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v2:
- Fix a typo in commit message (memset -> memcpy)
fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
index 75311a8a68bf..ab8dc73d2282 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
@@ -2550,12 +2550,11 @@ SMB2_ioctl_init(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct smb_rqst *rqst,
* indatalen is usually small at a couple of bytes max, so
* just allocate through generic pool
*/
- in_data_buf = kmalloc(indatalen, GFP_NOFS);
+ in_data_buf = kmemdup(in_data, indatalen, GFP_NOFS);
if (!in_data_buf) {
cifs_small_buf_release(req);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- memcpy(in_data_buf, in_data, indatalen);
}
req->CtlCode = cpu_to_le32(opcode);
--
2.11.0