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/aic79xx_osm_pci.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c index 3c85873..8466aa7 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c @@ -178,10 +178,9 @@ ahd_linux_pci_dev_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) ahd_get_pci_bus(pci), ahd_get_pci_slot(pci), ahd_get_pci_function(pci)); - name = kmalloc(strlen(buf) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC); + name = kstrdup(buf, GFP_ATOMIC); if (name == NULL) return (-ENOMEM); - strcpy(name, buf); ahd = ahd_alloc(NULL, name); if (ahd == 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