From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size calculation itself. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression a,flag; expression list args; statement S; @@ a = - \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(...,flag) + kasprintf(flag,args) <... when != a if (a == NULL || ...) S ...> - sprintf(a,args); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -1005,11 +1005,10 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(s result = acpi_video_init_brightness(device); if (result) return; - name = kzalloc(MAX_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); + name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "acpi_video%d", count++); if (!name) return; - sprintf(name, "acpi_video%d", count++); device->backlight = backlight_device_register(name, NULL, device, &acpi_backlight_ops); kfree(name); @@ -1056,10 +1055,9 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(s if (device->cap._DCS && device->cap._DSS) { static int count; char *name; - name = kzalloc(MAX_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); + name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "acpi_video%d", count++); if (!name) return; - sprintf(name, "acpi_video%d", count++); device->output_dev = video_output_register(name, NULL, device, &acpi_output_properties); kfree(name); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
