From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression from,to; expression flag,E1,E2; statement S; @@ - to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag); + to = kstrdup(from, flag); ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \) if (to==NULL || ...) S ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \) - strcpy(to, from); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -1976,12 +1976,11 @@ int ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(ipmi_smi_t s entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL); if (!entry) return -ENOMEM; - entry->name = kmalloc(strlen(name)+1, GFP_KERNEL); + entry->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); if (!entry->name) { kfree(entry); return -ENOMEM; } - strcpy(entry->name, name); file = create_proc_entry(name, 0, smi->proc_dir); if (!file) { -- 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
