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Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: wilc1000: cfg80211: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:54:51 +0530
Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to
> kmemdup.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> expression from,to,size,flag;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> -  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
> +  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
>    if (to==NULL || ...) S
> -  memcpy(to, from, size);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Stefano




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