netdev - [PATCH] brcm80211: smac: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.289.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] brcm80211: smac: 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/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c 2011-11-07 19:39:05.641131954 +0100
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c 2011-11-08 10:44:56.761349456 +0100
@@ -1561,11 +1561,10 @@ int brcms_ucode_init_buf(struct brcms_in
 			if (le32_to_cpu(hdr->idx) == idx) {
 				pdata = wl->fw.fw_bin[i]->data +
 					le32_to_cpu(hdr->offset);
-				*pbuf = kmalloc(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+				*pbuf = kmemdup(pdata, len, GFP_ATOMIC);
 				if (*pbuf == NULL)
 					goto fail;
 
-				memcpy(*pbuf, pdata, len);
 				return 0;
 			}
 		}
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