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From: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/37] drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx: Use kmemdup
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:59:37 +0300
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Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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To: ext Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:16 +0200, ext Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
> allocated region.
> 
> A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
> follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression from,to,size,flag;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> -  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
> +  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
>    if (to==NULL || ...) S
> -  memcpy(to, from, size);
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Thanks.

Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>

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Cheers,
Luca.