IB/core: Use kmemdup() instead of kmalloc()+memcpy()

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
statement S;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
+  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
-  memcpy(to, from, size);
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier 
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
index 6d77706..ce2e87b 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
@@ -1677,13 +1677,13 @@ int rdma_set_ib_paths(struct rdma_cm_id *id,
 	if (!cma_comp_exch(id_priv, CMA_ADDR_RESOLVED, CMA_ROUTE_RESOLVED))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	id->route.path_rec = kmalloc(sizeof *path_rec * num_paths, GFP_KERNEL);
+	id->route.path_rec = kmemdup(path_rec, sizeof *path_rec * num_paths,
+				     GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!id->route.path_rec) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(id->route.path_rec, path_rec, sizeof *path_rec * num_paths);
 	id->route.num_paths = num_paths;
 	return 0;
 err:
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
index 1df1194..6dc7b77 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c
@@ -291,13 +291,11 @@ struct ib_mad_agent *ib_register_mad_agent(struct ib_device *device,
 	}
 
 	if (mad_reg_req) {
-		reg_req = kmalloc(sizeof *reg_req, GFP_KERNEL);
+		reg_req = kmemdup(mad_reg_req, sizeof *reg_req, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!reg_req) {
 			ret = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 			goto error3;
 		}
-		/* Make a copy of the MAD registration request */
-		memcpy(reg_req, mad_reg_req, sizeof *reg_req);
 	}
 
 	/* Now, fill in the various structures */
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