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Date:   Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:22:03 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: lustre: Use kmemdup() instead of kzalloc and
 memcpy
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 04:46:55PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> Replace calls to kzalloc or kmalloc followed by a memcpy with
> a direct call to kmemdup to shorten the code.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> expression from,to,size,flag;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> -  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
> +  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
>    if (to==NULL || ...) S
> -  memcpy(to, from, size);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/api-ni.c | 5 ++---

Always work off of the latest kernel tree.  Ideally linux-next or the
staging.git staging-next tree.  Worse case, Linus's tree.  But never off
of an old kernel tree, that will only cause you to duplicate work that
others have done :(

Please resync against 4.18-rc1 and see why I say this when trying to
apply your patch...

thanks,

greg k-h