linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy

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Message-Id: <20160627.095936.2017216616383106273.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:59:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amitoj1606@...il.com
Cc:	jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy

From: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:19:37 +0530

> Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to
> kmemdup.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> 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);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>

Applied.