Commit 94b397cd authored Feb 16, 2016 by Amitoj Kaur Chawla Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Feb 20, 2016

staging: rdma: hfi1: Replace kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup



Replace kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup. Found using Coccinelle.

The semantic patch used to make this change can be found here:
scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 1e613801

drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c

+1 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -127,13 +127,12 @@ static int read_efi_var(const char name, unsigned long size,
		* temporary buffer. Now allocate a correctly sized
		* buffer.
		*/
		data = kmalloc(temp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
		data = kmemdup(temp_buffer, temp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
		if (!data) {
		ret = -ENOMEM;
		goto fail;
		}

		memcpy(data, temp_buffer, temp_size);
		*size = temp_size;
		*return_data = data;