Found with coccicheck. The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/csr/drv.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/csr/drv.c b/drivers/staging/csr/drv.c index 4780c32..3bd52fd 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/csr/drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/csr/drv.c @@ -819,15 +819,15 @@ unifi_write(struct file *filp, const char *p, size_t len, loff_t *poff) unifi_trace(priv, UDBG2, "unifi_write: signal 0x%.4X len:%d\n", sig_id, signal_size); - /* Allocate a buffer for the signal */ - signal_buf = kmalloc(signal_size, GFP_KERNEL); + /* Allocate a buffer for the signal */ + signal_buf = kmemdup(bulkdata.d[0].os_data_ptr, signal_size, + GFP_KERNEL); if (!signal_buf) { unifi_net_data_free(priv, &bulkdata.d[0]); return -ENOMEM; } /* Get the signal from the os_data_ptr */ - memcpy(signal_buf, bulkdata.d[0].os_data_ptr, signal_size); signal_buf[5] = (pcli->sender_id >> 8) & 0xff; if (signal_size < len) { -- 1.7.8.6 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel