On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 04:46:55PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote: > Replace calls to kzalloc or kmalloc followed by a memcpy with > a direct call to kmemdup to shorten the code. > > The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows: > @@ > expression from,to,size,flag; > statement S; > @@ > > - to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); > + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); > if (to==NULL || ...) S > - memcpy(to, from, size); > > Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c | 5 ++--- Always work off of the latest kernel tree. Ideally linux-next or the staging.git staging-next tree. Worse case, Linus's tree. But never off of an old kernel tree, that will only cause you to duplicate work that others have done :( Please resync against 4.18-rc1 and see why I say this when trying to apply your patch... thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
