The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c 2011-11-07 19:39:05.641131954 +0100 +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c 2011-11-08 10:44:56.761349456 +0100 @@ -1561,11 +1561,10 @@ int brcms_ucode_init_buf(struct brcms_in if (le32_to_cpu(hdr->idx) == idx) { pdata = wl->fw.fw_bin[i]->data + le32_to_cpu(hdr->offset); - *pbuf = kmalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC); + *pbuf = kmemdup(pdata, len, GFP_ATOMIC); if (*pbuf == NULL) goto fail; - memcpy(*pbuf, pdata, len); return 0; } } -- 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