linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hsi: use kmemdup

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 07:12:28 +0200
From:	Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
To:	Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hsi: use kmemdup

Hi,

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 04:39:28PM +0530, Muhammad Falak R Wani wrote:
> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated
> region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single
> call to kmemdup.

Thanks, queued for 4.8:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/sre/linux-hsi.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=b32bd7e7d5c1c04bb351420c09217f38dad8b8f1

-- Sebastian

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