Nov 18 2011

x86: Use kmemdup() in copy_thread(), rather than duplicating its implementation 

Author: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

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

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321569820.1624.275.camel@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 

---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 3bd7e6e..d2c1f62 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -293,13 +293,12 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp,
 	memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps));
 
 	if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) {
-		p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmalloc(IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
+		p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmemdup(me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr,
+						  IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr) {
 			p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0;
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
-		memcpy(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr,
-				IO_BITMAP_BYTES);
 		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_IO_BITMAP);
 	}

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