Re: [PATCH] net: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 23:43 +0100, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> The semantic patch that makes this change is available
> in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
> ---

Similarly this is for the specific driver 'irttp' and not generally
'net'.

Ben.

> diff -u -p a/net/irda/irttp.c b/net/irda/irttp.c
> --- a/net/irda/irttp.c 2011-11-07 19:39:06.071138486 +0100
> +++ b/net/irda/irttp.c 2011-11-08 10:59:07.152748948 +0100
> @@ -1461,14 +1461,13 @@ struct tsap_cb *irttp_dup(struct tsap_cb
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Allocate a new instance */
> -	new = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tsap_cb), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	new = kmemdup(orig, sizeof(struct tsap_cb), GFP_ATOMIC);
>  	if (!new) {
>  		IRDA_DEBUG(0, "%s(), unable to kmalloc\n", __func__);
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&irttp->tsaps->hb_spinlock, flags);
>  		return NULL;
>  	}
>  	/* Dup */
> -	memcpy(new, orig, sizeof(struct tsap_cb));
>  	spin_lock_init(&new->lock);
>  
>  	/* We don't need the old instance any more */

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