From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751525AbcETXut (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2016 19:50:49 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:53531 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751094AbcETXus (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2016 19:50:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 19:50:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20160520.195045.1454213439154888801.davem@davemloft.net> To: falakreyaz@gmail.com Cc: derek.chickles@caviumnetworks.com, satananda.burla@caviumnetworks.com, felix.manlunas@caviumnetworks.com, raghu.vatsavayi@caviumnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net:liquidio: use kmemdup From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1463665972-16451-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com> References: <1463665972-16451-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 24.5 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Fri, 20 May 2016 16:50:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Muhammad Falak R Wani Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:22:49 +0530 > Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated > region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single > call to kmemdup. > > Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani Applied.