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/memstick/core/mspro_block.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
@@ -1012,12 +1012,11 @@ static int mspro_block_read_attributes(s
}
msb->attr_group.name = "media_attributes";

- buffer = kmalloc(msb->page_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kmemdup((char *)attr, msb->page_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free_attr;
}
- memcpy(buffer, (char *)attr, msb->page_size);
page_count = 1;

for (cnt = 0; cnt < attr_count; ++cnt) {
--
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