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/net/usb/ch9200.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ch9200.c b/drivers/net/usb/ch9200.c index 5e151e6..8a40202 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/ch9200.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/ch9200.c @@ -155,12 +155,11 @@ static int control_write(struct usbnet *dev, unsigned char request, index, size); if (data) { - buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) { err = -ENOMEM; goto err_out; } - memcpy(buf, data, size); } err = usb_control_msg(dev->udev, -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html