The static analyser tool gave the following advice:
./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_virt.c:1266:7-14: WARNING opportunity for kmemdup
→ 1266 tmp = kmalloc(used_size, GFP_KERNEL);
1267 if (!tmp)
1268 return -ENOMEM;
1269
→ 1270 memcpy(tmp, &host_telemetry->body.error_count, used_size);
Replacing kmalloc() + memcpy() with kmemdump() doesn't change semantics.
Original code works without fault, so this is not a bug fix but proposed improvement.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/198928/
Fixes: 84a2947ecc85 ("drm/amdgpu: Implement virt req_ras_err_count")
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Xinhui Pan <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Zhigang Luo <Zhigang.Luo@amd.com>
Cc: Victor Skvortsov <victor.skvortsov@amd.com>
Cc: Hawking Zhang <Hawking.Zhang@amd.com>
Cc: Lijo Lazar <lijo.lazar@amd.com>
Cc: Yunxiang Li <Yunxiang.Li@amd.com>
Cc: Jack Xiao <Jack.Xiao@amd.com>
Cc: Vignesh Chander <Vignesh.Chander@amd.com>
Cc: Danijel Slivka <danijel.slivka@amd.com>
Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Lijo Lazar <lijo.lazar@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorovac69@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
if (used_size > (AMD_SRIOV_RAS_TELEMETRY_SIZE_KB << 10))
return 0;
- tmp = kmalloc(used_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ tmp = kmemdup(&host_telemetry->body.error_count, used_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tmp)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(tmp, &host_telemetry->body.error_count, used_size);
-
if (checksum != amd_sriov_msg_checksum(tmp, used_size, 0, 0))
goto out;