From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:37:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320781030.8062.154.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
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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