Return-path: Received: from mgw2.diku.dk ([130.225.96.92]:41708 "EHLO mgw2.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753833Ab0EOVRD (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 May 2010 17:17:03 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:16:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall To: Samuel Ortiz , Zhu Yi , Intel Linux Wireless , "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 13/37] drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi: Use kmemdup Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Julia Lawall Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the allocated region. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ 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: Julia Lawall --- drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/rx.c @@ -321,14 +321,14 @@ iwm_rx_ticket_node_alloc(struct iwm_priv return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } - ticket_node->ticket = kzalloc(sizeof(struct iwm_rx_ticket), GFP_KERNEL); + ticket_node->ticket = kmemdup(ticket, sizeof(struct iwm_rx_ticket), + GFP_KERNEL); if (!ticket_node->ticket) { IWM_ERR(iwm, "Couldn't allocate RX ticket\n"); kfree(ticket_node); return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } - memcpy(ticket_node->ticket, ticket, sizeof(struct iwm_rx_ticket)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ticket_node->node); return ticket_node;