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Re: [PATCH] tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy

From	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] tipc: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy
Date	2016-06-27 16:10 +0200
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From: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:19:37 +0530

> Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct call to
> kmemdup.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> expression from,to,size,flag;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> -  to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
> +  to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
>    if (to==NULL || ...) S
> -  memcpy(to, from, size);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>

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