linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86, mrst: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.277.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] x86, mrst: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its
 implementation

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.

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

diff -u -p a/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c b/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c
--- a/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c 2011-11-07 19:37:40.283168752 +0100
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/mrst/mrst.c 2011-11-08 11:01:48.424910801 +0100
@@ -656,13 +656,12 @@ static void __init intel_scu_spi_device_
 		return;
 	}
 
-	new_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*sdev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_dev = kmemdup(sdev, sizeof(*sdev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_dev) {
 		pr_err("failed to alloc mem for delayed spi dev %s\n",
 			sdev->modalias);
 		return;
 	}
-	memcpy(new_dev, sdev, sizeof(*sdev));
 
 	spi_devs[spi_next_dev++] = new_dev;
 }
@@ -677,13 +676,12 @@ static void __init intel_scu_i2c_device_
 		return;
 	}
 
-	new_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*idev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_dev = kmemdup(idev, sizeof(*idev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_dev) {
 		pr_err("failed to alloc mem for delayed i2c dev %s\n",
 			idev->type);
 		return;
 	}
-	memcpy(new_dev, idev, sizeof(*idev));
 
 	i2c_bus[i2c_next_dev] = bus;
 	i2c_devs[i2c_next_dev++] = new_dev;
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