When some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated region. Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to kmemdup. Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c index 1e73064..7b46462 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c @@ -5995,13 +5995,12 @@ mpt_findImVolumes(MPT_ADAPTER *ioc) if (mpt_config(ioc, &cfg) != 0) goto out; - mem = kmalloc(iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL); + mem = kmemdup((u8 *)pIoc2, iocpage2sz, GFP_KERNEL); if (!mem) { rc = -ENOMEM; goto out; } - memcpy(mem, (u8 *)pIoc2, iocpage2sz); ioc->raid_data.pIocPg2 = (IOCPage2_t *) mem; mpt_read_ioc_pg_3(ioc); -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html