From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ezequiel Garcia Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:57:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 03/23] usbvision: Replace memcpy with struct assignment Message-Id: <1351022246-8201-3-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <1351022246-8201-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1351022246-8201-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Ezequiel Garcia , Peter Senna Tschudin This kind of memcpy() is error-prone. Its replacement with a struct assignment is prefered because it's type-safe and much easier to read. Found by coccinelle. Hand patched and reviewed. Tested by compilation only. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @@ identifier struct_name; struct struct_name to; struct struct_name from; expression E; @@ -memcpy(&(to), &(from), E); +to = from; // Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia --- drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c index 89fec02..ba262a3 100644 --- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c +++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c @@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ int usbvision_i2c_register(struct usb_usbvision *usbvision) if (usbvision->registered_i2c) return 0; - memcpy(&usbvision->i2c_adap, &i2c_adap_template, - sizeof(struct i2c_adapter)); + usbvision->i2c_adap = i2c_adap_template; sprintf(usbvision->i2c_adap.name, "%s-%d-%s", i2c_adap_template.name, usbvision->dev->bus->busnum, usbvision->dev->devpath); -- 1.7.4.4