[PATCH HID v2 02/11] HID: core: save one kmemdup during .probe()

[Benjamin Tissoires]

Turns out the first kmemdup is only required for the .report_fixup()
driver callback. There is no need to do two kmemdup() in a raw in case
.report_fixup() is not present.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bent...@kernel.org>

---

new in v2
---
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index a5f5415571cb..172746a082f9 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *device)
        struct hid_item item;
        unsigned int size;
        const __u8 *start;
-       __u8 *buf;
+       __u8 *buf = NULL;
        const __u8 *end;
        const __u8 *next;
        int ret;
@@ -1227,14 +1227,18 @@ int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *device)
        if (WARN_ON(!start))
                return -ENODEV;
 
-       buf = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (buf == NULL)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+       if (device->driver->report_fixup) {
+               /*
+                * device->driver->report_fixup() needs to work
+                * on a copy of our report descriptor so it can
+                * change it.
+                */
+               buf = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (buf == NULL)
+                       return -ENOMEM;
 
-       if (device->driver->report_fixup)
                start = device->driver->report_fixup(device, buf, &size);
-       else
-               start = buf;
+       }
 
        start = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL);
        kfree(buf);

-- 
2.46.0