The patch titled
Subject: drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block: use kmemdup
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-memstick-core-mspro_block-use-kmemdup.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/drivers-memstick-core-mspro_block-use-kmemdup.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/drivers-memstick-core-mspro_block-use-kmemdup.patch
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From: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block: use kmemdup
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.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463665743-16269-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c~drivers-memstick-core-mspro_block-use-kmemdup drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c~drivers-memstick-core-mspro_block-use-kmemdup
+++ a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
@@ -1033,12 +1033,11 @@ static int mspro_block_read_attributes(s
}
msb->attr_group.name = "media_attributes";
- buffer = kmalloc(attr_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kmemdup((char *)attr, attr_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free_attr;
}
- memcpy(buffer, (char *)attr, attr_len);
for (cnt = 0; cnt < attr_count; ++cnt) {
s_attr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mspro_sys_attr), GFP_KERNEL);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from falakreyaz@xxxxxxxxx are
drivers-memstick-core-mspro_block-use-kmemdup.patch
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