when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated region. Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to kmemdup. Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index ba1aa24..dde4bc4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1206,10 +1206,9 @@ static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p) struct sockaddr *addr; struct scatterlist sg; - addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL); + addr = kmemdup(p, sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL); if (!addr) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(addr, p, sizeof(*addr)); ret = eth_prepare_mac_addr_change(dev, addr); if (ret) -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
