drivers/char/ppdev.c: use kasprintf

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size
calculation itself.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@@
expression a,flag;
expression list args;
statement S;
@@

  a =
-  \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(...,flag)
+  kasprintf(flag,args)
  <... when != a
  if (a == NULL || ...) S
  ...>
- sprintf(a,args);
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Cc: Michael Buesch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
---
 drivers/char/ppdev.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/ppdev.c b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
index fdd3754..02abfdd 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ppdev.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ppdev.c
@@ -287,12 +287,10 @@ static int register_device (int minor, struct pp_struct *pp)
 	char *name;
 	int fl;
 
-	name = kmalloc (strlen (CHRDEV) + 3, GFP_KERNEL);
+	name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, CHRDEV "%x", minor);
 	if (name == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	sprintf (name, CHRDEV "%x", minor);
-
 	port = parport_find_number (minor);
 	if (!port) {
 		printk (KERN_WARNING "%s: no associated port!\n", name);
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