Re: [PATCH] fs: fs2fs: Replaced calls to kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup

[Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:49:37PM +0200, Alexandru Gheorghiu wrote:
> Replaced calls to kmalloc followd by memcpy with a single call to kmemdup.
> This patch was found using coccicheck.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>

> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c |    6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
> index aebeacd..839183f 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
> @@ -434,12 +434,11 @@ void ocfs2_shutdown_local_alloc(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
>  	bh = osb->local_alloc_bh;
>  	alloc = (struct ocfs2_dinode *) bh->b_data;
>  
> -	alloc_copy = kmalloc(bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
> +	alloc_copy = kmemdup(alloc, bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
>  	if (!alloc_copy) {
>  		status = -ENOMEM;
>  		goto out_commit;
>  	}
> -	memcpy(alloc_copy, alloc, bh->b_size);
>  
>  	status = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(local_alloc_inode),
>  					 bh, OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
> @@ -1244,13 +1243,12 @@ static int ocfs2_local_alloc_slide_window(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
>  	 * local alloc shutdown won't try to double free main bitmap
>  	 * bits. Make a copy so the sync function knows which bits to
>  	 * free. */
> -	alloc_copy = kmalloc(osb->local_alloc_bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
> +	alloc_copy = kmemdup(alloc, osb->local_alloc_bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
>  	if (!alloc_copy) {
>  		status = -ENOMEM;
>  		mlog_errno(status);
>  		goto bail;
>  	}
> -	memcpy(alloc_copy, alloc, osb->local_alloc_bh->b_size);
>  
>  	status = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle,
>  					 INODE_CACHE(local_alloc_inode),
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 

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