From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] gma500: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:15:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321100125.1668.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
---
diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c b/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c
--- a/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c 2011-11-07 19:38:10.703630794 +0100
+++ b/drivers/staging/gma500/intel_bios.c 2011-11-08 10:52:10.090491565 +0100
@@ -104,12 +104,11 @@ static void parse_backlight_data(struct
bl_start = find_section(bdb, BDB_LVDS_BACKLIGHT);
vbt_lvds_bl = (struct bdb_lvds_backlight *)(bl_start + 1) + p_type;
- lvds_bl = kzalloc(sizeof(*vbt_lvds_bl), GFP_KERNEL);
+ lvds_bl = kmemdup(vbt_lvds_bl, sizeof(*vbt_lvds_bl), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!lvds_bl) {
dev_err(dev_priv->dev->dev, "out of memory for backlight data\n");
return;
}
- memcpy(lvds_bl, vbt_lvds_bl, sizeof(*vbt_lvds_bl));
dev_priv->lvds_bl = lvds_bl;
}
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