[PATCH] staging: wilc1000: fix memdup.cocci warnings

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Mon Mar 26 2018 - 15:41:36 EST


From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>

drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:946:32-39: WARNING opportunity for kmemdup
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c:970:30-37: WARNING opportunity for kmemdup

Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci

Fixes: aaea2164bdff ("staging: wilc1000: check for kmalloc allocation failures")
CC: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
---

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
staging-next
head: 12a0148711a440f5b7111f95a34dfce88cdb47d6
commit: aaea2164bdff39697d0f1ec69dcae62632e37974 [400/412] staging:
wilc1000: check for kmalloc allocation failures

In the first hunk, should 6 be ETH_ALEN?

host_interface.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c
@@ -943,12 +943,12 @@ static s32 handle_connect(struct wilc_vi
}

if (conn_attr->bssid) {
- hif_drv->usr_conn_req.bssid = kmalloc(6, GFP_KERNEL);
+ hif_drv->usr_conn_req.bssid = kmemdup(conn_attr->bssid, 6,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hif_drv->usr_conn_req.bssid) {
result = -ENOMEM;
goto error;
}
- memcpy(hif_drv->usr_conn_req.bssid, conn_attr->bssid, 6);
}

hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ssid_len = conn_attr->ssid_len;
@@ -967,15 +967,13 @@ static s32 handle_connect(struct wilc_vi

hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ies_len = conn_attr->ies_len;
if (conn_attr->ies) {
- hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ies = kmalloc(conn_attr->ies_len,
+ hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ies = kmemdup(conn_attr->ies,
+ conn_attr->ies_len,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ies) {
result = -ENOMEM;
goto error;
}
- memcpy(hif_drv->usr_conn_req.ies,
- conn_attr->ies,
- conn_attr->ies_len);
}

hif_drv->usr_conn_req.security = conn_attr->security;