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/aacraid/commctrl.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c index 4b3bb52..b381b37 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c @@ -635,15 +635,14 @@ static int aac_send_raw_srb(struct aac_dev* dev, void __user * arg) } } else { struct user_sgmap* usg; - usg = kmalloc(actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb) - + sizeof(struct sgmap), GFP_KERNEL); + usg = kmemdup(upsg, + actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb) + + sizeof(struct sgmap), GFP_KERNEL); if (!usg) { dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Allocation error in Raw SRB command\n")); rcode = -ENOMEM; goto cleanup; } - memcpy (usg, upsg, actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb) - + sizeof(struct sgmap)); actual_fibsize = actual_fibsize64; for (i = 0; i < usg->count; i++) { -- 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