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* [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
@ 2011-11-08 19:30 Thomas Meyer
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Meyer @ 2011-11-08 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Larry Finger, wlanfae, devel, linux-kernel

From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

 Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

 The semantic patch that makes this change is available
 in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.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/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c 2011-11-07 19:38:11.783647197 +0100
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_wx.c 2011-11-08 10:51:57.493656037 +0100
@@ -846,10 +846,9 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_gen_ie(struct rtllib_d
 
 			ieee->wps_ie_len = (len < MAX_WZC_IE_LEN) ? (len) :
 					   (MAX_WZC_IE_LEN);
-			buf = kmalloc(ieee->wps_ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+			buf = kmemdup(ie, ieee->wps_ie_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (buf == NULL)
 				return -ENOMEM;
-			memcpy(buf, ie, ieee->wps_ie_len);
 			ieee->wps_ie = buf;
 			return 0;
 		}
@@ -860,10 +859,9 @@ int rtllib_wx_set_gen_ie(struct rtllib_d
 	if (len) {
 		if (len != ie[1]+2)
 			return -EINVAL;
-		buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		buf = kmemdup(ie, len, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (buf == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		memcpy(buf, ie, len);
 		kfree(ieee->wpa_ie);
 		ieee->wpa_ie = buf;
 		ieee->wpa_ie_len = len;



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* [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
@ 2011-11-08 19:37 Thomas Meyer
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Meyer @ 2011-11-08 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Larry Finger, devel, linux-kernel

From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

 Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

 The semantic patch that makes this change is available
 in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.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/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c 2011-11-07 19:38:11.780313813 +0100
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c 2011-11-08 10:51:51.523576009 +0100
@@ -3207,11 +3207,11 @@ static int rtllib_wpa_set_wpa_ie(struct
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (param->u.wpa_ie.len) {
-		buf = kmalloc(param->u.wpa_ie.len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		buf = kmemdup(param->u.wpa_ie.data, param->u.wpa_ie.len,
+			      GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (buf == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		memcpy(buf, param->u.wpa_ie.data, param->u.wpa_ie.len);
 		kfree(ieee->wpa_ie);
 		ieee->wpa_ie = buf;
 		ieee->wpa_ie_len = param->u.wpa_ie.len;



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