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From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: go7007: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:18:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1321100317.1668.25.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/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c b/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c
--- a/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c 2011-11-07 19:38:11.440308651 +0100
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/go7007/go7007-driver.c 2011-11-08 10:52:05.237093171 +0100
@@ -109,14 +109,13 @@ static int go7007_load_encoder(struct go
 		return -1;
 	}
 	fw_len = fw_entry->size - 16;
-	bounce = kmalloc(fw_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	bounce = kmemdup(fw_entry->data + 16, fw_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (bounce == NULL) {
 		v4l2_err(go, "unable to allocate %d bytes for "
 				"firmware transfer\n", fw_len);
 		release_firmware(fw_entry);
 		return -1;
 	}
-	memcpy(bounce, fw_entry->data + 16, fw_len);
 	release_firmware(fw_entry);
 	if (go7007_interface_reset(go) < 0 ||
 			go7007_send_firmware(go, bounce, fw_len) < 0 ||



             reply	other threads:[~2011-11-12 16:59 UTC|newest]

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2011-11-12 12:18 Thomas Meyer [this message]
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