Oct 23 2012

[media] usbvision: Replace memcpy with struct assignment 

Author: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>

This kind of memcpy() is error-prone. Its replacement with a struct
assignment is prefered because it's type-safe and much easier to read.
Found by coccinelle. Hand patched and reviewed.
Tested by compilation only.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// 
@@
identifier struct_name;
struct struct_name to;
struct struct_name from;
expression E;
@@
-memcpy(&(to), &(from), E);
+to = from;
// 

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin 
Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 

---
 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c
index 89fec02..ba262a3 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c
@@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ int usbvision_i2c_register(struct usb_usbvision *usbvision)
 	if (usbvision->registered_i2c)
 		return 0;
 
-	memcpy(&usbvision->i2c_adap, &i2c_adap_template,
-	       sizeof(struct i2c_adapter));
+	usbvision->i2c_adap = i2c_adap_template;
 
 	sprintf(usbvision->i2c_adap.name, "%s-%d-%s", i2c_adap_template.name,
 		usbvision->dev->bus->busnum, usbvision->dev->devpath);

qlambert