From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Subject: [PATCH 10/37] drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf: Use kmemdup Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:16:03 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-janitors-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Julia Lawall 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/) // @@ 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); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall --- drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c @@ -538,7 +538,8 @@ static void if_usb_receive_fwload(struct return; } - syncfwheader = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fwsyncheader), GFP_ATOMIC); + syncfwheader = kmemdup(skb->data, sizeof(struct fwsyncheader), + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!syncfwheader) { lbtf_deb_usbd(&cardp->udev->dev, "Failure to allocate syncfwheader\n"); kfree_skb(skb); @@ -546,8 +547,6 @@ static void if_usb_receive_fwload(struct return; } - memcpy(syncfwheader, skb->data, sizeof(struct fwsyncheader));