Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single call to kmemdup. Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@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 5537f8d..4cad96e 100644 --- a/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +++ b/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c @@ -5997,13 +5997,12 @@ 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); -- 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