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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ipmi: use kstrdup()
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:20:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312622416.5589.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)

From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

 Use kstrdup rather than duplicating its implementation

 The semantic patch that makes this output is available
 in scripts/coccinelle/api/kstrdup.cocci.

 More information about semantic patching is available at
 http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c 2011-05-27 19:17:04.559520123 +0200
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c 2011-08-01 21:10:43.970134537 +0200
@@ -2030,12 +2030,11 @@ int ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(ipmi_smi_t s
 	entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	entry->name = kmalloc(strlen(name)+1, GFP_KERNEL);
+	entry->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!entry->name) {
 		kfree(entry);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
-	strcpy(entry->name, name);
 
 	file = proc_create_data(name, 0, smi->proc_dir, proc_ops, data);
 	if (!file) {



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