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/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c index 64ab9ea..2672c39 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_core.c @@ -6940,10 +6940,10 @@ ahc_loadseq(struct ahc_softc *ahc) if (cs_count != 0) { cs_count *= sizeof(struct cs); - ahc->critical_sections = kmalloc(cs_count, GFP_ATOMIC); + ahc->critical_sections = kmemdup(cs_table, cs_count, + GFP_ATOMIC); if (ahc->critical_sections == NULL) panic("ahc_loadseq: Could not malloc"); - memcpy(ahc->critical_sections, cs_table, cs_count); } ahc_outb(ahc, SEQCTL, PERRORDIS|FAILDIS|FASTMODE); -- 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