Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c b/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c --- a/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c 2011-11-07 19:38:10.703630794 +0100 +++ b/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c 2011-11-08 10:52:10.090491565 +0100 @@ -104,12 +104,11 @@ static void parse_backlight_data(struct bl_start = find_section(bdb, BDB_LVDS_BACKLIGHT); vbt_lvds_bl = (struct bdb_lvds_backlight *)(bl_start + 1) + p_type; - lvds_bl = kzalloc(sizeof(*vbt_lvds_bl), GFP_KERNEL); + lvds_bl = kmemdup(vbt_lvds_bl, sizeof(*vbt_lvds_bl), GFP_KERNEL); if (!lvds_bl) { dev_err(dev_priv->dev->dev, "out of memory for backlight data\n"); return; } - memcpy(lvds_bl, vbt_lvds_bl, sizeof(*vbt_lvds_bl)); dev_priv->lvds_bl = lvds_bl; } _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel