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/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c 2011-11-07 19:38:23.353822940 +0100 +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c 2011-11-08 10:34:05.545953251 +0100 @@ -985,12 +985,11 @@ static struct nfs4_client *alloc_client( clp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct nfs4_client), GFP_KERNEL); if (clp == NULL) return NULL; - clp->cl_name.data = kmalloc(name.len, GFP_KERNEL); + clp->cl_name.data = kmemdup(name.data, name.len, GFP_KERNEL); if (clp->cl_name.data == NULL) { kfree(clp); return NULL; } - memcpy(clp->cl_name.data, name.data, name.len); clp->cl_name.len = name.len; return clp; } diff -u -p a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c 2011-11-07 19:38:23.357156324 +0100 +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c 2011-11-08 10:34:08.289323359 +0100 @@ -215,10 +215,9 @@ defer_free(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *ar static char *savemem(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp, __be32 *p, int nbytes) { if (p == argp->tmp) { - p = kmalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kmemdup(argp->tmp, nbytes, GFP_KERNEL); if (!p) return NULL; - memcpy(p, argp->tmp, nbytes); } else { BUG_ON(p != argp->tmpp); argp->tmpp = NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html