The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scriptcoccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Madhusudhanan Ravindran <mravindran04@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c index 45f8de3..ba4551f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c @@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ int fbtft_gamma_parse_str(struct fbtft_par *par, unsigned long *curves, fbtft_par_dbg(DEBUG_SYSFS, par, "%s\n", str); - tmp = kmalloc(size+1, GFP_KERNEL); + tmp = kmemdup(str, size + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!tmp) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(tmp, str, size+1); /* replace optional separators */ str_p = tmp; -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel