netdev - [PATCH 16/31] net/cavium/liquidio: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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Date:	Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:59:22 +0200
From:	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
To:	Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...ium.com>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 16/31] net/cavium/liquidio: use kmemdup rather than duplicating
 its implementation

The patch was generated using fixed coccinelle semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci [1].

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2014320

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
index f67641a..8e23e3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
@@ -602,12 +602,10 @@ int octeon_download_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct, const u8 *data,
 	snprintf(oct->fw_info.liquidio_firmware_version, 32, "LIQUIDIO: %s",
 		 h->version);
 
-	buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buffer)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	memcpy(buffer, data, size);
-
 	p = buffer + sizeof(struct octeon_firmware_file_header);
 
 	/* load all images */
-- 
1.9.1

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