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Commit 801822d1 authored by Shyam Saini's avatar Shyam Saini Committed by David S. Miller
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net: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy 



when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated region.
Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct
call to kmemdup.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5671e8c1

drivers/net/virtio_net.c

+1 −2
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@@ -1236,10 +1236,9 @@ static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p) 
	struct sockaddr *addr;

	struct scatterlist sg;



	addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL);

	addr = kmemdup(p, sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL);

	if (!addr)

		return -ENOMEM;

	memcpy(addr, p, sizeof(*addr));



	ret = eth_prepare_mac_addr_change(dev, addr);

	if (ret)