On Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:22:21 AM Alexandru Gheorghiu wrote:
> Replaced calls to kmalloc followed by memcpy with a single call to kmemdup.
> Patch found using coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuandru@xxxxxxxxx>
I have an analogous patch already in my tree.
Thanks,
Rafael
> ---
> drivers/acpi/bus.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/bus.c b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> index 01708a1..6c8380e 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/bus.c
> @@ -288,13 +288,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_run_osc(acpi_handle handle, struct acpi_osc_context *context)
> }
> out_success:
> context->ret.length = out_obj->buffer.length;
> - context->ret.pointer = kmalloc(context->ret.length, GFP_KERNEL);
> + context->ret.pointer = kmemdup(out_obj->buffer.pointer,
> + context->ret.length, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!context->ret.pointer) {
> status = AE_NO_MEMORY;
> goto out_kfree;
> }
> - memcpy(context->ret.pointer, out_obj->buffer.pointer,
> - context->ret.length);
> status = AE_OK;
>
> out_kfree:
>
--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.
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