Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: Use kmemdup instead of duplicating its function

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Jan 26 2019 - 16:24:18 EST


On Sat, 2019-01-26 at 20:42 +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
> Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-nvm-parse.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-nvm-parse.c
[]
> @@ -1196,13 +1196,9 @@ iwl_parse_nvm_mcc_info(struct device *dev, const struct iwl_cfg *cfg,
> regd_to_copy = sizeof(struct ieee80211_regdomain) +
> valid_rules * sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule);
> - copy_rd = kzalloc(regd_to_copy, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!copy_rd) {
> + copy_rd = kmemdup(regd, regd_to_copy, GFP_KERNEL);

This should probably be

copy_rd = kmemdup(regd, struct_size(regd, reg_rules, valid_rules),
GFP_KERNEL);

> + if (!copy_rd)
> copy_rd = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> - goto out;
> - }
> -
> - memcpy(copy_rd, regd, regd_to_copy);
>
> out:
> kfree(regdb_ptrs);