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: 84a2947ecc85c ("drm/amdgpu: Implement virt req_ras_err_count")
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deuc...@amd.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koe...@amd.com>
Cc: Xinhui Pan <xinhui....@amd.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airl...@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <sim...@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Zhigang Luo <zhigang....@amd.com>
Cc: Victor Skvortsov <victor.skvort...@amd.com>
Cc: Hawking Zhang <hawking.zh...@amd.com>
Cc: Lijo Lazar <lijo.la...@amd.com>
Cc: Yunxiang Li <yunxiang...@amd.com>
Cc: Jack Xiao <jack.x...@amd.com>
Cc: Vignesh Chander <vignesh.chan...@amd.com>
Cc: Danijel Slivka <danijel.sli...@amd.com>
Cc: amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: dri-de...@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mirsad Todorovac <mtodorova...@gmail.com>
---
 v1:
        initial version.

 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_virt.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_virt.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_virt.c
index c704e9803e11..0af469ec6fcc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_virt.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_virt.c
@@ -1263,12 +1263,10 @@ static int amdgpu_virt_cache_host_error_counts(struct 
amdgpu_device *adev,
        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;
 
-- 
2.43.0

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