From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ethtool: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:05:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321571135.1624.313.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---
diff -u -p a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c 2011-11-07 19:37:57.036756543 +0100
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c 2011-11-08 10:42:14.842512269 +0100
@@ -1410,10 +1410,9 @@ static int gfar_optimize_filer_masks(str
/* We need a copy of the filer table because
* we want to change its order */
- temp_table = kmalloc(sizeof(*temp_table), GFP_KERNEL);
+ temp_table = kmemdup(tab, sizeof(*temp_table), GFP_KERNEL);
if (temp_table == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(temp_table, tab, sizeof(*temp_table));
mask_table = kcalloc(MAX_FILER_CACHE_IDX / 2 + 1,
sizeof(struct gfar_mask_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
next reply other threads:[~2011-11-17 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-17 23:05 Thomas Meyer [this message]
2011-11-18 15:47 ` [PATCH] ethtool: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation Ben Hutchings
2011-11-21 20:04 ` David Miller
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