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/usb/serial/cp210x.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c b/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c index 96a7078..4d6a5c6 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c @@ -496,12 +496,10 @@ static int cp210x_write_reg_block(struct usb_serial_port *port, u8 req, void *dmabuf; int result; - dmabuf = kmalloc(bufsize, GFP_KERNEL); + dmabuf = kmemdup(buf, bufsize, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dmabuf) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(dmabuf, buf, bufsize); - result = usb_control_msg(serial->dev, usb_sndctrlpipe(serial->dev, 0), req, REQTYPE_HOST_TO_INTERFACE, 0, port_priv->bInterfaceNumber, dmabuf, bufsize, -- 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