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/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c 2011-11-07 19:38:07.896921497 +0100 +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_scsih.c 2011-11-08 10:55:07.719539347 +0100 @@ -7372,7 +7372,7 @@ mpt2sas_scsih_event_callback(struct MPT2 return 1; } sz = le16_to_cpu(mpi_reply->EventDataLength) * 4; - fw_event->event_data = kzalloc(sz, GFP_ATOMIC); + fw_event->event_data = kmemdup(mpi_reply->EventData, sz, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!fw_event->event_data) { printk(MPT2SAS_ERR_FMT "failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", ioc->name, __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); @@ -7380,8 +7380,6 @@ mpt2sas_scsih_event_callback(struct MPT2 return 1; } - memcpy(fw_event->event_data, mpi_reply->EventData, - sz); fw_event->ioc = ioc; fw_event->VF_ID = mpi_reply->VF_ID; fw_event->VP_ID = mpi_reply->VP_ID; -- 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