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

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Date:   Fri, 7 Jul 2017 18:52:52 +0530
From:   hari prasath <gehariprasath@...il.com>
To:     Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        mchehab@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@...il.com>,
        rvarsha016@...il.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup

On 07-Jul-2017 5:25 PM, "Alan Cox" <alan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

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 ?
> Yes & thanks for pointing me that. I will send a v2 version.

-Hari