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/hv/hv_mouse.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c --- a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c 2011-11-07 19:38:10.923634136 +0100 +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c 2011-11-08 10:52:29.944091035 +0100 @@ -205,13 +205,11 @@ static void mousevsc_on_receive_device_i desc = &device_info->hid_descriptor; WARN_ON(desc->bLength == 0); - input_device->hid_desc = kzalloc(desc->bLength, GFP_ATOMIC); + input_device->hid_desc = kmemdup(desc, desc->bLength, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!input_device->hid_desc) goto cleanup; - memcpy(input_device->hid_desc, desc, desc->bLength); - input_device->report_desc_size = desc->desc[0].wDescriptorLength; if (input_device->report_desc_size == 0) goto cleanup; diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c --- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c 2011-11-07 19:38:10.923634136 +0100 +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc.c 2011-11-08 10:52:30.410763958 +0100 @@ -230,19 +230,14 @@ static int netvsc_init_recv_buf(struct h net_device->recv_section_cnt = init_packet->msg. v1_msg.send_recv_buf_complete.num_sections; - net_device->recv_section = kmalloc(net_device->recv_section_cnt - * sizeof(struct nvsp_1_receive_buffer_section), GFP_KERNEL); + net_device->recv_section = kmemdup(init_packet->msg.v1_msg.send_recv_buf_complete.sections, + net_device->recv_section_cnt * sizeof(struct nvsp_1_receive_buffer_section), + GFP_KERNEL); if (net_device->recv_section == NULL) { ret = -EINVAL; goto cleanup; } - memcpy(net_device->recv_section, - init_packet->msg.v1_msg. - send_recv_buf_complete.sections, - net_device->recv_section_cnt * - sizeof(struct nvsp_1_receive_buffer_section)); - /* * For 1st release, there should only be 1 section that represents the * entire receive buffer _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel