From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julia Lawall Subject: [PATCH 33/37] drivers/net/usb: Use kmemdup Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 23:23:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Peter Korsgaard , Greg Kroah-Hartman , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-usb-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, kernel-janitors-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Return-path: Sender: linux-usb-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/usb/dm9601.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -u -p a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c --- a/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.c @@ -93,10 +93,9 @@ static int dm_write(struct usbnet *dev, netdev_dbg(dev->net, "dm_write() reg=0x%02x, length=%d\n", reg, length); if (data) { - buf = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmemdup(data, length, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) goto out; - memcpy(buf, data, length); } err = usb_control_msg(dev->udev, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html