The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scriptcoccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Madhusudhanan Ravindran <mravindr@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr_cache.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr_cache.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr_cache.c index 7e2fcfe..da190f9 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr_cache.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/xattr_cache.c @@ -132,11 +132,10 @@ static int ll_xattr_cache_add(struct list_head *cache, xattr->xe_namelen); goto err_name; } - xattr->xe_value = kzalloc(xattr_val_len, GFP_NOFS); + xattr->xe_value = kmemdup(xattr_val, xattr_val_len, GFP_NOFS); if (!xattr->xe_value) goto err_value; - memcpy(xattr->xe_value, xattr_val, xattr_val_len); xattr->xe_vallen = xattr_val_len; list_add(&xattr->xe_list, cache); -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel