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) – sprintf(a,args); // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse — drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c …