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From: Julia Lawall on 15 May 2010 17:20
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

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/)

// <smpl>
@@
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);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

---
drivers/acpi/ec.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/acpi/ec.c b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
--- a/drivers/acpi/ec.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ec.c
@@ -1027,10 +1027,9 @@ int __init acpi_ec_ecdt_probe(void)
/* Don't trust ECDT, which comes from ASUSTek */
if (!EC_FLAGS_VALIDATE_ECDT)
goto install;
- saved_ec = kmalloc(sizeof(struct acpi_ec), GFP_KERNEL);
+ saved_ec = kmemdup(boot_ec, sizeof(struct acpi_ec), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!saved_ec)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(saved_ec, boot_ec, sizeof(struct acpi_ec));
/* fall through */
}

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