Re: [PATCH 2/4] iio: imu: add Bosch Sensortec BNO055 core driver

From: Andrea Merello
Date: Mon Jul 19 2021 - 05:03:24 EST


Il giorno gio 15 lug 2021 alle ore 18:50 Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

>
> > +/* must be called in configuration mode */
> > +int bno055_calibration_load(struct bno055_priv *priv, const struct firmware *fw)
> > +{
> > + int i;
> > + unsigned int tmp;
> > + u8 cal[BNO055_CALDATA_LEN];
> > + int read, tot_read = 0;
> > + int ret = 0;
> > + char *buf = kmalloc(fw->size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +
> > + if (!buf)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > +
> > + memcpy(buf, fw->data, fw->size);
>
> kmemdup() ?
>

As a second thought: no, the whole point of reallocating and copying
here, is that we want to allocate an extra byte; kmemdup() will
allocate and copy only the very same amount of memory