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/arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_provider.c b/arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_provider.c --- a/arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_provider.c 2011-11-07 19:39:05.034456070 +0100 +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_provider.c 2011-11-08 11:01:35.484737338 +0100 @@ -127,12 +127,11 @@ pcibr_bus_fixup(struct pcibus_bussoft *p * Allocate kernel bus soft and copy from prom. */ - soft = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pcibus_info), GFP_KERNEL); + soft = kmemdup(prom_bussoft, sizeof(struct pcibus_info), GFP_KERNEL); if (!soft) { return NULL; } - memcpy(soft, prom_bussoft, sizeof(struct pcibus_info)); soft->pbi_buscommon.bs_base = (unsigned long) ioremap(REGION_OFFSET(soft->pbi_buscommon.bs_base), sizeof(struct pic)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html