From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Muhammad Falak R Wani Subject: [PATCH] ps3_gelic: use kmemdup Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:24:41 +0530 Message-ID: <1463666090-16540-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , "David S. Miller" , Christophe Jaillet , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single call to kmemdup. Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani --- drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_wireless.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_wireless.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_wireless.c index 743b182..446ea58 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_wireless.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/toshiba/ps3_gelic_wireless.c @@ -1616,13 +1616,13 @@ static void gelic_wl_scan_complete_event(struct gelic_wl_info *wl) target->valid = 1; target->eurus_index = i; kfree(target->hwinfo); - target->hwinfo = kzalloc(be16_to_cpu(scan_info->size), + target->hwinfo = kmemdup(scan_info, + be16_to_cpu(scan_info->size), GFP_KERNEL); if (!target->hwinfo) continue; /* copy hw scan info */ - memcpy(target->hwinfo, scan_info, be16_to_cpu(scan_info->size)); target->essid_len = strnlen(scan_info->essid, sizeof(scan_info->essid)); target->rate_len = 0; -- 1.9.1