Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751088AbaFJOUq (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:20:46 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com ([209.85.160.43]:38518 "EHLO mail-pb0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750891AbaFJOUo (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:20:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:50:37 +0530 From: Himangi Saraogi To: Hannes Reinecke , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: julia.lawall@lip6.fr Subject: [PATCH] aic7xxx/aic7770 : Use kstrdup Message-ID: <20140610142037.GA2993@himangi-Dell> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: // @@ expression from,to; expression flag,E1,E2; statement S; @@ - to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag); + to = kstrdup(from, flag); ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \) if (to==NULL || ...) S ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \) - strcpy(to, from); // Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi Acked-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c index 0cb8ef6..3d401d0 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770_osm.c @@ -85,10 +85,9 @@ aic7770_probe(struct device *dev) int error; sprintf(buf, "ahc_eisa:%d", eisaBase >> 12); - name = kmalloc(strlen(buf) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC); + name = kstrdup(buf, GFP_ATOMIC); if (name == NULL) return (ENOMEM); - strcpy(name, buf); ahc = ahc_alloc(&aic7xxx_driver_template, name); if (ahc == NULL) return (ENOMEM); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/