linux-kernel - [PATCH 34/37] drivers/mtd: Use kmemdup

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Date:	Sat, 15 May 2010 23:23:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 34/37] drivers/mtd: 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/mtd/mtdconcat.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -183,10 +183,9 @@ concat_writev(struct mtd_info *mtd, cons
 	}
 
 	/* make a copy of vecs */
-	vecs_copy = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kvec) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	vecs_copy = kmemdup(vecs, sizeof(struct kvec) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!vecs_copy)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memcpy(vecs_copy, vecs, sizeof(struct kvec) * count);
 
 	entry_low = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < concat->num_subdev; i++) {
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