linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/37] drivers/acpi: Use kmemdup

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Date:	Sat, 15 May 2010 23:16:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/37] drivers/acpi: 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/acpi/ec.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -1027,10 +1027,9 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
 		/* Don't trust ECDT, which comes from ASUSTek */
 		if (!EC_FLAGS_VALIDATE_ECDT)
 			goto install;
-		saved_ec = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_ec), GFP_KERNEL);
+		saved_ec = kmemdup(boot_ec, sizeof(struct acpi_ec), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!saved_ec)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		memcpy(saved_ec, boot_ec, sizeof(struct acpi_ec));
 	/* fall through */
 	}
 
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