linux-kernel - [PATCH] [SCSI] aic7xxx: use kstrdup()

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Message-ID: <1312622577.5589.63.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:22:53 +0200
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	hare@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] aic7xxx: use kstrdup()

From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>

 Use kstrdup rather than duplicating its implementation

 The semantic patch that makes this output is available
 in scripts/coccinelle/api/kstrdup.cocci.

 More information about semantic patching is available at
 http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c 2010-09-13 07:01:17.520528007 +0200
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm_pci.c 2011-08-01 21:15:58.925094946 +0200
@@ -178,10 +178,9 @@ ahd_linux_pci_dev_probe(struct pci_dev *
 		ahd_get_pci_bus(pci),
 		ahd_get_pci_slot(pci),
 		ahd_get_pci_function(pci));
-	name = kmalloc(strlen(buf) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	name = kstrdup(buf, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (name == NULL)
 		return (-ENOMEM);
-	strcpy(name, buf);
 	ahd = ahd_alloc(NULL, name);
 	if (ahd == NULL)
 		return (-ENOMEM);


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