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/char/ppdev.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c --- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c +++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c @@ -286,12 +286,10 @@ static int register_device (int minor, s char *name; int fl; - name = kmalloc (strlen (CHRDEV) + 3, GFP_KERNEL); + name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, CHRDEV "%x", minor); if (name == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - sprintf (name, CHRDEV "%x", minor); - port = parport_find_number (minor); if (!port) { printk (KERN_WARNING "%s: no associated port!\n", 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
