From: Julia Lawall on
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/net/usb/pegasus.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
--- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
@@ -203,13 +203,12 @@ static int set_registers(pegasus_t * peg
char *buffer;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);

- buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer) {
netif_warn(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net,
"out of memory in %s\n", __func__);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- memcpy(buffer, data, size);

add_wait_queue(&pegasus->ctrl_wait, &wait);
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
@@ -255,13 +254,12 @@ static int set_register(pegasus_t * pega
char *tmp;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);

- tmp = kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ tmp = kmemdup(&data, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!tmp) {
netif_warn(pegasus, drv, pegasus->net,
"out of memory in %s\n", __func__);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- memcpy(tmp, &data, 1);
add_wait_queue(&pegasus->ctrl_wait, &wait);
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
while (pegasus->flags & ETH_REGS_CHANGED)
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