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| From | Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | [PATCH] net:liquidio: use kmemdup |
| Date | 2016-05-19 16:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rAwEx-vI-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
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 <falakreyaz@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c index f67641a..8e23e3f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c @@ -602,12 +602,10 @@ int octeon_download_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct, const u8 *data, snprintf(oct->fw_info.liquidio_firmware_version, 32, "LIQUIDIO: %s", h->version); - buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buffer) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(buffer, data, size); - p = buffer + sizeof(struct octeon_firmware_file_header); /* load all images */ -- 1.9.1
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[PATCH] net:liquidio: use kmemdup Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 16:00 +0200 Re: [PATCH] net:liquidio: use kmemdup David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-05-21 02:00 +0200
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