Em Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:44:02 +0200 (CEST)
Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovet...@gmx.de> escreveu:
> Hi Mauro,
>
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>
> > Instead of calling kzalloc and then copying, use kmemdup(). That
> > avoids zeroing the data structure before copying.
> >
> > Found by coccinelle.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.che...@samsung.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/soc_camera.c
> > b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/soc_camera.c
> > index f4308fed5431..ee8cdc95a9f9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/soc_camera.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/soc_camera/soc_camera.c
> > @@ -1347,13 +1347,11 @@ static int soc_camera_i2c_init(struct
> > soc_camera_device *icd,
> > return -ENODEV;
> > }
> >
> > - ssdd = kzalloc(sizeof(*ssdd), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + ssdd = kmemdup(&sdesc->subdev_desc, sizeof(*ssdd), GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (!ssdd) {
> > ret = -ENOMEM;
> > goto ealloc;
> > }
> > -
> > - memcpy(ssdd, &sdesc->subdev_desc, sizeof(*ssdd));
>
> Hm, wow... that seems to be a particularly silly one... Even if not
> memdup, why did I use kZalloc() to immediately overwrite it completely?..
Maybe this pattern happened due to some incremental change.
> Thanks for catching! This and the other two (so far) patches - would you
> like me to pull-push them or just use my
>
> Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovet...@gmx.de>
>
> for all 3 of them?
Just the acked-by is enough.
Thanks!
Mauro
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
>
> > /*
> > * In synchronous case we request regulators ourselves in
> > * soc_camera_pdrv_probe(), make sure the subdevice driver doesn't try
> > --
> > 1.9.3
> >
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