linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/37] drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx: Use kmemdup

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Date:	Sat, 15 May 2010 23:15:10 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@....fi>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/37] drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx: Use kmemdup

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

Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
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);
// </smpl>

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

---
 drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_main.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_main.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/wl1251_main.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ static int wl1251_fetch_nvs(struct wl125
 	}
 
 	wl->nvs_len = fw->size;
-	wl->nvs = kmalloc(wl->nvs_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	wl->nvs = kmemdup(fw->data, wl->nvs_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!wl->nvs) {
 		wl1251_error("could not allocate memory for the nvs file");
@@ -132,8 +132,6 @@ static int wl1251_fetch_nvs(struct wl125
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(wl->nvs, fw->data, wl->nvs_len);
-
 	ret = 0;
 
 out:
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