linux-kernel - [PATCH] [SCSI] aic79xx: use kmemdup

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Date:	Thu, 19 May 2016 19:38:31 +0530
From:	Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>
Cc:	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] aic79xx: use kmemdup

Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated
region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single
call to kmemdup.

Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@...il.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
index 109e2c9..8592448 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c
@@ -9494,10 +9494,10 @@ ahd_loadseq(struct ahd_softc *ahd)
 	if (cs_count != 0) {
 
 		cs_count *= sizeof(struct cs);
-		ahd->critical_sections = kmalloc(cs_count, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		ahd->critical_sections = kmemdup(cs_table, cs_count,
+						 GFP_ATOMIC);
 		if (ahd->critical_sections == NULL)
 			panic("ahd_loadseq: Could not malloc");
-		memcpy(ahd->critical_sections, cs_table, cs_count);
 	}
 	ahd_outb(ahd, SEQCTL0, PERRORDIS|FAILDIS|FASTMODE);
 
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