From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. More information about semantic patching is available at http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c 2011-11-07 19:38:11.783647197 +0100 +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c 2011-11-08 10:51:57.493656037 +0100 @@ -846,10 +846,9 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_gen_ie(struct rtllib_d ieee->wps_ie_len = (len < MAX_WZC_IE_LEN) ? (len) : (MAX_WZC_IE_LEN); - buf = kmalloc(ieee->wps_ie_len, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmemdup(ie, ieee->wps_ie_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (buf == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(buf, ie, ieee->wps_ie_len); ieee->wps_ie = buf; return 0; } @@ -860,10 +859,9 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_gen_ie(struct rtllib_d if (len) { if (len != ie[1]+2) return -EINVAL; - buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmemdup(ie, len, GFP_KERNEL); if (buf == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(buf, ie, len); kfree(ieee->wpa_ie); ieee->wpa_ie = buf; ieee->wpa_ie_len = len; _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel