Feb 16 2016

x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation 

Author: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>

The patch was generated using fixed coccinelle semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455612202-14414-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c   | 4 +---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
index f66cbfe..e397fc1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
@@ -788,15 +788,13 @@ static int verify_and_add_patch(u8 family, u8 *fw, unsigned int leftover)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	patch->data = kzalloc(patch_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	patch->data = kmemdup(fw + SECTION_HDR_SIZE, patch_size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!patch->data) {
 		pr_err("Patch data allocation failure.\n");
 		kfree(patch);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	/* All looks ok, copy patch... */
-	memcpy(patch->data, fw + SECTION_HDR_SIZE, patch_size);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&patch->plist);
 	patch->patch_id  = mc_hdr->patch_id;
 	patch->equiv_cpu = proc_id;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
index cb397947..cbb3cf0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -210,13 +210,11 @@ save_microcode(struct mc_saved_data *mcs,
 		mc_hdr = &mc->hdr;
 		size   = get_totalsize(mc_hdr);
 
-		saved_ptr[i] = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+		saved_ptr[i] = kmemdup(mc, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!saved_ptr[i]) {
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			goto err;
 		}
-
-		memcpy(saved_ptr[i], mc, size);
 	}
 
 	/*

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