From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the allocated region. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ - to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || ...) S - memcpy(to, from, size); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c --- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c @@ -1012,12 +1012,11 @@ static int mspro_block_read_attributes(s } msb->attr_group.name = "media_attributes"; - buffer = kmalloc(msb->page_size, GFP_KERNEL); + buffer = kmemdup((char *)attr, msb->page_size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buffer) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto out_free_attr; } - memcpy(buffer, (char *)attr, msb->page_size); page_count = 1; for (cnt = 0; cnt < attr_count; ++cnt) { -- 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
