[PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup

From	Hari Prasath <gehariprasath@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup
Date	2017-07-07 14:00 +0200
Message-ID	<u0A5r-3x2-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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kmemdup can be used to replace kmalloc followed by a memcpy.This was
pointed out by the coccinelle tool.

Signed-off-by: Hari Prasath <gehariprasath@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css_firmware.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css_firmware.c b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css_firmware.c
index 34cc56f..58d4619 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css_firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/pci/atomisp2/css2400/sh_css_firmware.c
@@ -146,12 +146,10 @@ sh_css_load_blob_info(const char *fw, const struct ia_css_fw_info *bi, struct ia
 		char *namebuffer;
 		int namelength = (int)strlen(name);
 
-		namebuffer = (char *) kmalloc(namelength + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+		namebuffer = (char *)kmemdup(name, namelength + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (namebuffer == NULL)
 			return IA_CSS_ERR_CANNOT_ALLOCATE_MEMORY;
 
-		memcpy(namebuffer, name, namelength + 1);
-
 		bd->name = fw_minibuffer[index].name = namebuffer;
 	} else {
 		bd->name = name;
-- 
2.10.0.GIT

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[PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup Hari Prasath <gehariprasath@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 14:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> - 2017-07-07 14:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] staging: atomisp: replace kmalloc & memcpy with kmemdup hari prasath <gehariprasath@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 15:30 +0200

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