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From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: "Chatre, Reinette" <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@linux.intel.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org"
	<kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/37] drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00: Use kmemdup
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 01:26:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274146012.27831.2484.camel@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1005152320450.21345@ask.diku.dk>

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 05:21 +0800, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
> allocated region.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is
> as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> 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);
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> 

Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>

Thanks,
-yi


      reply	other threads:[~2010-05-18  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-15 21:21 [PATCH 26/37] drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00: Use kmemdup Julia Lawall
2010-05-18  1:26 ` Zhu Yi [this message]

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