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> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c @@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@ static struct dlm_ctxt *dlm_alloc_ctxt(c goto leave; } - dlm->name = kmalloc(strlen(domain) + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + dlm->name = kstrdup(domain, GFP_KERNEL); if (dlm->name == NULL) { mlog_errno(-ENOMEM); kfree(dlm); @@ -1557,7 +1557,6 @@ static struct dlm_ctxt *dlm_alloc_ctxt(c for (i = 0; i < DLM_HASH_BUCKETS; i++) INIT_HLIST_HEAD(dlm_master_hash(dlm, i)); - strcpy(dlm->name, domain); dlm->key = key; dlm->node_num = o2nm_this_node(); -- 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