The patch titled
Subject: drivers/memstick: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
drivers-memstick-use-kmemdup-rather-than-duplicating-its-implementation.patch
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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: drivers/memstick: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
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-use-kmemdup-rather-than-duplicating-its-implementation drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c~drivers-memstick-use-kmemdup-rather-than-duplicating-its-implementation
+++ a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
@@ -1034,12 +1034,11 @@ 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);
_
Subject: Subject: drivers/memstick: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Patches currently in -mm which might be from thomas@xxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
drivers-memstick-use-kmemdup-rather-than-duplicating-its-implementation.patch
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