From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the allocated region. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ 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); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1271_main.c @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ static int wl1271_fetch_nvs(struct wl127 goto out; } - wl->nvs = kmalloc(sizeof(struct wl1271_nvs_file), GFP_KERNEL); + wl->nvs = kmemdup(fw->data, sizeof(struct wl1271_nvs_file), GFP_KERNEL); if (!wl->nvs) { wl1271_error("could not allocate memory for the nvs file"); @@ -581,8 +581,6 @@ static int wl1271_fetch_nvs(struct wl127 goto out; } - memcpy(wl->nvs, fw->data, sizeof(struct wl1271_nvs_file)); - out: release_firmware(fw); @@ -2350,15 +2348,13 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *wl1271_alloc_hw(voi goto err_hw_alloc; } - plat_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(wl1271_device), GFP_KERNEL); + plat_dev = kmemdup(&wl1271_device, sizeof(wl1271_device), GFP_KERNEL); if (!plat_dev) { wl1271_error("could not allocate platform_device"); ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_plat_alloc; } - memcpy(plat_dev, &wl1271_device, sizeof(wl1271_device)); - wl = hw->priv; memset(wl, 0, sizeof(*wl)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html