On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:48 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > > Convert a sequence of kmalloc and memcpy to use kasprintf. The argument is > > checked for being a string by the presence of a previous call to strlen. > [] > > diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c > [] > > @@ -716,10 +716,9 @@ int ceph_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, > > > > /* preallocate memory for xattr name, value, index node */ > > err = -ENOMEM; > > - newname = kmalloc(name_len + 1, GFP_NOFS); > > + newname = kasprintf(GFP_NOFS, "%s", name); > > This one is probably better converted to kmemdup > as name_len is already known and is used later > in the routine. > > kstrdup is also a possibility. That calculates the length again, so I will change it to kmemdup. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
