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/wireless/p54/eeprom.c | 4 ++--
drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c
@@ -433,10 +433,9 @@ static int p54u_firmware_reset_3887(stru
u8 *buf;
int ret;

- buf = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmemdup(p54u_romboot_3887, 4, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(buf, p54u_romboot_3887, 4);
ret = p54u_bulk_msg(priv, P54U_PIPE_DATA,
buf, 4);
kfree(buf);
diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/p54/eeprom.c
@@ -599,13 +599,13 @@ int p54_parse_eeprom(struct ieee80211_hw
}
break;
case PDR_PRISM_ZIF_TX_IQ_CALIBRATION:
- priv->iq_autocal = kmalloc(data_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ priv->iq_autocal = kmemdup(entry->data, data_len,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
if (!priv->iq_autocal) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto err;
}

- memcpy(priv->iq_autocal, entry->data, data_len);
priv->iq_autocal_len = data_len / sizeof(struct pda_iq_autocal_entry);
break;
case PDR_DEFAULT_COUNTRY:
--
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