Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: // <smpl> @@ expression from,to; expression flag,E1,E2; statement S; @@ - to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag); + to = kstrdup(from, flag); ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \) if (to==NULL || ...) S ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \) - strcpy(to, from); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c index 0cb8ef6..3d401d0 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c @@ -85,10 +85,9 @@ aic7770_probe(struct device *dev) int error; sprintf(buf, "ahc_eisa:%d", eisaBase >> 12); - name = kmalloc(strlen(buf) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC); + name = kstrdup(buf, GFP_ATOMIC); if (name == NULL) return (ENOMEM); - strcpy(name, buf); ahc = ahc_alloc(&aic7xxx_driver_template, name); if (ahc == NULL) return (ENOMEM); -- 1.9.1 -- 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