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Staging: rtl8712: Use memdup_user() instead of copy_from_user()

Author: Cristina Opriceana <cristina.opriceana@gmail.com> Use memdup_user() to avoid its duplicated implementation and simplify code. memdup_user() uses GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC, which is valid because copy_from_user() might sleep and it’s useless to make the allocation atomic. Found with coccinelle. Signed-off-by: Cristina Opriceana Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman — drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c | 10 +++——- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 …

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