From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:32:41 -0700 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 8/10] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Use kstrdup In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100518193241.GE3239@mail.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Julia Lawall Cc: Mark Fasheh , ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:30:48PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall > > Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the > allocated region. > > The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: > (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) > > // > @@ > expression from,to; > expression flag,E1,E2; > statement S; > @@ > > - to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag); > + to = kstrdup(from, flag); > ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \) > if (to==NULL || ...) S > ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \) > - strcpy(to, from); > // > > Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall This patch is now in the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git. Joel -- "If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not to kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt" -Thomas Carlyle Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127