Re: [PATCH 26/37] drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00: Use kmemdup

[Zhu Yi]

On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 05:21 +0800, 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> 

Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-yi

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