Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
Category: Linux
May 16 2010
IB/core: Use kmemdup() instead of kmalloc()+memcpy()
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
drivers/platform/x86: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
Staging: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
drivers/net/wireless/b43: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
HID: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
Bluetooth: Use kmemdup for drivers
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
PCI hotplug: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
May 16 2010
drivers/gpu/drm: Use kmemdup
Author: Julia Lawall <julia@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/) // @@ expression from,to,size,flag; statement S; @@ – to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag); + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag); if (to==NULL || …) S – memcpy(to, from, …
