Found with coccicheck. The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@xxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c b/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c index ece2dd1..0e299f0 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c +++ b/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c @@ -108,14 +108,13 @@ static int go7007_load_encoder(struct go7007 *go) return -1; } fw_len = fw_entry->size - 16; - bounce = kmalloc(fw_len, GFP_KERNEL); + bounce = kmemdup(fw_entry->data + 16, fw_len, GFP_KERNEL); if (bounce == NULL) { v4l2_err(go, "unable to allocate %d bytes for " "firmware transfer\n", fw_len); release_firmware(fw_entry); return -1; } - memcpy(bounce, fw_entry->data + 16, fw_len); release_firmware(fw_entry); if (go7007_interface_reset(go) < 0 || go7007_send_firmware(go, bounce, fw_len) < 0 || -- 1.7.8.6 -- 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