May 26 2014

drm/edid: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc + memcpy 

Author: Benoit Taine <benoit.taine@lip6.fr>

This issue was reported by coccicheck using the semantic patch
at scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci

Signed-off-by: Benoit Taine 
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie 

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
index 7a4fd2e..d74239f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -3228,10 +3228,9 @@ int drm_edid_to_speaker_allocation(struct edid *edid, u8 **sadb)
 
 			/* Speaker Allocation Data Block */
 			if (dbl == 3) {
-				*sadb = kmalloc(dbl, GFP_KERNEL);
+				*sadb = kmemdup(&db[1], dbl, GFP_KERNEL);
 				if (!*sadb)
 					return -ENOMEM;
-				memcpy(*sadb, &db[1], dbl);
 				count = dbl;
 				break;
 			}

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