[PATCH 14/37] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k: Use kmemdup

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Sat May 15 2010 - 17:17:31 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c
@@ -901,12 +901,10 @@ static void ath9k_hif_usb_reboot(struct
void *buf;
int ret;

- buf = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmemdup(&reboot_cmd, 4, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return;

- memcpy(buf, &reboot_cmd, 4);
-
ret = usb_bulk_msg(udev, usb_sndbulkpipe(udev, USB_REG_OUT_PIPE),
buf, 4, NULL, HZ);
if (ret)
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