May 16 2010

drivers/net/wireless/orinoco: 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: John W. Linville 

---
 drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/wext.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/wext.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/wext.c
index 5775124..a63108c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/wext.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/wext.c
@@ -993,11 +993,9 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_set_genie(struct net_device *dev,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (wrqu->data.length) {
-		buf = kmalloc(wrqu->data.length, GFP_KERNEL);
+		buf = kmemdup(extra, wrqu->data.length, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (buf == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		memcpy(buf, extra, wrqu->data.length);
 	} else
 		buf = NULL;

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