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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] i2o: use kstrdup()
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:30:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312623053.5589.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

 Use kstrdup rather than duplicating its implementation

 The semantic patch that makes this output is available
 in scripts/coccinelle/api/kstrdup.cocci.

 More information about semantic patching is available at
 http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/message/i2o/memory.c b/drivers/message/i2o/memory.c
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/memory.c 2010-03-27 23:39:49.118521162 +0100
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/memory.c 2011-08-01 21:02:30.929472234 +0200
@@ -270,10 +270,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(i2o_dma_realloc);
 int i2o_pool_alloc(struct i2o_pool *pool, const char *name,
 				 size_t size, int min_nr)
 {
-	pool->name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	pool->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pool->name)
 		goto exit;
-	strcpy(pool->name, name);
 
 	pool->slab =
 	    kmem_cache_create(pool->name, size, 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);



             reply	other threads:[~2011-08-06  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-06  9:30 Thomas Meyer [this message]
2011-08-06 10:14 ` [PATCH] i2o: use kstrdup() Alan Cox

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