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> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c @@ -118,12 +118,10 @@ static int pSeries_reconfig_add_node(con if (!np) goto out_err; - np->full_name = kmalloc(strlen(path) + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + np->full_name = kstrdup(path, GFP_KERNEL); if (!np->full_name) goto out_err; - strcpy(np->full_name, path); - np->properties = proplist; of_node_set_flag(np, OF_DYNAMIC); kref_init(&np->kref); -- 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
