Mar 08 2015

staging: fbtft: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation 

Author: Madhusudhanan Ravindran <mravindran04@gmail.com>

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scriptcoccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Madhusudhanan Ravindran 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

---
 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c
index 45f8de3..ba4551f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c
@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ int fbtft_gamma_parse_str(struct fbtft_par *par, unsigned long *curves,
 
 	fbtft_par_dbg(DEBUG_SYSFS, par, "%s\n", str);
 
-	tmp = kmalloc(size+1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	tmp = kmemdup(str, size + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tmp)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	memcpy(tmp, str, size+1);
 
 	/* replace optional separators */
 	str_p = tmp;

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