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/net/usb/pegasus.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c --- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c @@ -203,13 +203,12 @@ static int set_registers(pegasus_t * peg char *buffer; DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); - buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buffer) { netif_warn(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net, "out of memory in %s\n", __func__); return -ENOMEM; } - memcpy(buffer, data, size); add_wait_queue(&pegasus->ctrl_wait, &wait); set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); @@ -255,13 +254,12 @@ static int set_register(pegasus_t * pega char *tmp; DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current); - tmp = kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL); + tmp = kmemdup(&data, 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (!tmp) { netif_warn(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net, "out of memory in %s\n", __func__); return -ENOMEM; } - memcpy(tmp, &data, 1); add_wait_queue(&pegasus->ctrl_wait, &wait); set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); while (pegasus->flags & ETH_REGS_CHANGED) -- 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
