linux-kernel - [PATCH] dlm: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:22:01 +0530
From:	Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
To:	ccaulfie@...hat.com, teigland@...hat.com, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: [PATCH] dlm: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy

Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to
kmemdup.

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: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
---
 fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
index 1ab012a..963016c 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
@@ -1279,10 +1279,9 @@ static void init_local(void)
 		if (dlm_our_addr(&sas, i))
 			break;
 
-		addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_NOFS);
+		addr = kmemdup(&sas, sizeof(*addr), GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!addr)
 			break;
-		memcpy(addr, &sas, sizeof(*addr));
 		dlm_local_addr[dlm_local_count++] = addr;
 	}
 }
-- 
1.9.1