linux-kernel - [PATCH] [SCSI] aacraid: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	JBottomley@...allels.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] aacraid: 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@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c 2011-11-07 19:38:06.463566391 +0100
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c 2011-11-08 10:53:23.848146953 +0100
@@ -631,15 +631,14 @@ static int aac_send_raw_srb(struct aac_d
 			}
 		} else {
 			struct user_sgmap* usg;
-			usg = kmalloc(actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb)
-			  + sizeof(struct sgmap), GFP_KERNEL);
+			usg = kmemdup(upsg,
+				      actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb) + sizeof(struct sgmap),
+				      GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!usg) {
 				dprintk((KERN_DEBUG"aacraid: Allocation error in Raw SRB command\n"));
 				rcode = -ENOMEM;
 				goto cleanup;
 			}
-			memcpy (usg, upsg, actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb)
-			  + sizeof(struct sgmap));
 			actual_fibsize = actual_fibsize64;
 
 			for (i = 0; i < usg->count; i++) {
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