The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c --- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c 2011-11-07 19:37:48.623295422 +0100 +++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c 2011-11-08 10:48:49.317800208 +0100 @@ -914,14 +914,13 @@ static int load_firmware(struct drxd_sta return -EIO; } - state->microcode = kmalloc(fw->size, GFP_KERNEL); + state->microcode = kmemdup(fw->data, fw->size, GFP_KERNEL); if (state->microcode == NULL) { release_firmware(fw); printk(KERN_ERR "drxd: firmware load failure: no memory\n"); return -ENOMEM; } - memcpy(state->microcode, fw->data, fw->size); state->microcode_length = fw->size; release_firmware(fw); return 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html