The patch titled
Subject: aoe: replace kmalloc and then memcpy with kmemdup
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
aoe-replace-kmalloc-and-then-memcpy-with-kmemdup.patch
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From: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur <mihneadb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: aoe: replace kmalloc and then memcpy with kmemdup
Signed-off-by: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur <mihneadb@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c~aoe-replace-kmalloc-and-then-memcpy-with-kmemdup drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c~aoe-replace-kmalloc-and-then-memcpy-with-kmemdup
+++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c
@@ -139,13 +139,12 @@ bail: spin_unlock_irqrestore(&emsgs_loc
return;
}
- mp = kmalloc(n, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ mp = kmemdup(msg, n, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (mp == NULL) {
printk(KERN_ERR "aoe: allocation failure, len=%ld\n", n);
goto bail;
}
- memcpy(mp, msg, n);
em->msg = mp;
em->flags |= EMFL_VALID;
em->len = n;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mihneadb@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
aoe-replace-kmalloc-and-then-memcpy-with-kmemdup.patch
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