The patch titled devcgroup: use kmemdup() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is devcgroup-use-kmemdup.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: devcgroup: use kmemdup() From: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This saves 40 bytes on my x86_32 box. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/device_cgroup.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN security/device_cgroup.c~devcgroup-use-kmemdup security/device_cgroup.c --- a/security/device_cgroup.c~devcgroup-use-kmemdup +++ a/security/device_cgroup.c @@ -84,13 +84,9 @@ static int dev_whitelist_copy(struct lis struct dev_whitelist_item *wh, *tmp, *new; list_for_each_entry(wh, orig, list) { - new = kmalloc(sizeof(*wh), GFP_KERNEL); + new = kmemdup(wh, sizeof(*wh), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) goto free_and_exit; - new->major = wh->major; - new->minor = wh->minor; - new->type = wh->type; - new->access = wh->access; list_add_tail(&new->list, dest); } @@ -114,11 +110,10 @@ static int dev_whitelist_add(struct dev_ { struct dev_whitelist_item *whcopy, *walk; - whcopy = kmalloc(sizeof(*whcopy), GFP_KERNEL); + whcopy = kmemdup(wh, sizeof(*wh), GFP_KERNEL); if (!whcopy) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(whcopy, wh, sizeof(*whcopy)); spin_lock(&dev_cgroup->lock); list_for_each_entry(walk, &dev_cgroup->whitelist, list) { if (walk->type != wh->type) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are devcgroup-fix-race-against-rmdir.patch linux-next.patch memrlimit-cgroup-mm-owner-callback-changes-to-add-task-info.patch devcgroup-use-kmemdup.patch devcgroup-remove-unused-variable.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-documentation.patch memrlimit-setup-the-memrlimit-controller.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-accounting-and-control.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-accounting-and-control-memory-rlimit-enhance-mm_owner_changed-callback-to-deal-with-exited-owner.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-accounting-and-control-memory-rlimit-fix-crash-on-fork.patch memrlimit-improve-error-handling.patch memrlimit-improve-error-handling-update.patch memrlimit-handle-attach_task-failure-add-can_attach-callback.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html