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From: Julia Lawall on 15 May 2010 17:30
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/mtd/mtdconcat.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdconcat.c
@@ -183,10 +183,9 @@ concat_writev(struct mtd_info *mtd, cons
}

/* make a copy of vecs */
- vecs_copy = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kvec) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ vecs_copy = kmemdup(vecs, sizeof(struct kvec) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!vecs_copy)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(vecs_copy, vecs, sizeof(struct kvec) * count);

entry_low = 0;
for (i = 0; i < concat->num_subdev; i++) {
--
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