linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup

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Date:   Fri, 07 Jul 2017 12:55:51 +0100
From:   Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Hari Prasath <gehariprasath@...il.com>, mchehab@...nel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rvarsha016@...il.com,
        julia.lawall@...6.fr, singhalsimran0@...il.com,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup

On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 17:20 +0530, Hari Prasath wrote:
> kmemdup can be used to replace kmalloc followed by a memcpy.This was
> pointed out by the coccinelle tool.

And kstrdup could do the job even better I think ?

Alan