Re: [PATCH 12/37] drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx: Use kmemdup

From: Luciano Coelho
Date: Mon May 17 2010 - 04:00:57 EST


On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:16 +0200, ext Julia Lawall wrote:
> 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>

Thanks.

Acked-by: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,
Luca.

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