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/tioca_provider.c b/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c --- a/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c 2011-11-07 19:39:05.034456070 +0100 +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c 2011-11-08 11:01:35.744740824 +0100 @@ -600,11 +600,11 @@ tioca_bus_fixup(struct pcibus_bussoft *p * Allocate kernel bus soft and copy from prom. */ - tioca_common = kzalloc(sizeof(struct tioca_common), GFP_KERNEL); + tioca_common = kmemdup(prom_bussoft, sizeof(struct tioca_common), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!tioca_common) return NULL; - memcpy(tioca_common, prom_bussoft, sizeof(struct tioca_common)); tioca_common->ca_common.bs_base = (unsigned long) ioremap(REGION_OFFSET(tioca_common->ca_common.bs_base), sizeof(struct tioca_common)); -- 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