Jul 01 2010

V4L/DVB: drivers/media/video/zoran: Use kmemdup 

Author: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// 
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
statement S;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
+  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
-  memcpy(to, from, size);
// 

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall 
Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 

---
 drivers/media/video/zoran/videocodec.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/zoran/videocodec.c b/drivers/media/video/zoran/videocodec.c
index cf24956..c010716 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/zoran/videocodec.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/zoran/videocodec.c
@@ -107,15 +107,14 @@ videocodec_attach (struct videocodec_master *master)
 			if (!try_module_get(h->codec->owner))
 				return NULL;
 
-			codec =
-			    kmalloc(sizeof(struct videocodec), GFP_KERNEL);
+			codec = kmemdup(h->codec, sizeof(struct videocodec),
+					GFP_KERNEL);
 			if (!codec) {
 				dprintk(1,
 					KERN_ERR
 					"videocodec_attach: no mem\n");
 				goto out_module_put;
 			}
-			memcpy(codec, h->codec, sizeof(struct videocodec));
 
 			snprintf(codec->name, sizeof(codec->name),
 				 "%s[%d]", codec->name, h->attached);

qlambert