linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/10] drivers/s390/char: Use kstrdup

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005142303180.28935@ask.diku.dk>
Date:	Fri, 14 May 2010 23:03:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux390@...ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/10] drivers/s390/char: Use kstrdup

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the
allocated region.  Additionally drop the now unused variable len.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression from,to;
expression flag,E1,E2;
statement S;
@@

-  to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag);
+  to = kstrdup(from, flag);
   ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \)
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
   ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \)
-  strcpy(to, from);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

---
 drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c |    7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c b/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
--- a/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/keyboard.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static unsigned char ret_diacr[NR_DEAD] 
 struct kbd_data *
 kbd_alloc(void) {
 	struct kbd_data *kbd;
-	int i, len;
+	int i;
 
 	kbd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kbd_data), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kbd)
@@ -72,11 +72,10 @@ kbd_alloc(void) {
 		goto out_maps;
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(func_table); i++) {
 		if (func_table[i]) {
-			len = strlen(func_table[i]) + 1;
-			kbd->func_table[i] = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+			kbd->func_table[i] = kstrdup(func_table[i],
+						     GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!kbd->func_table[i])
 				goto out_func;
-			memcpy(kbd->func_table[i], func_table[i], len);
 		}
 	}
 	kbd->fn_handler =
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