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/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c @@ -132,13 +132,12 @@ bail: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&emsgs_loc return; } - mp = kmalloc(n, GFP_ATOMIC); + mp = kmemdup(msg, n, GFP_ATOMIC); if (mp == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: allocation failure, len=%ld\n", n); goto bail; } - memcpy(mp, msg, n); em->msg = mp; em->flags |= EMFL_VALID; em->len = n; -- 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
