[PATCH 06/31] arch/powerpc/pseries: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

Andrzej Hajda a.hajda at samsung.com
Fri Aug 7 17:59:12 AEST 2015


The patch was generated using fixed coccinelle semantic patch
scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci [1].

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2014320

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda at samsung.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
index 0ced387..e9ff44c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
@@ -92,13 +92,12 @@ static struct property *dlpar_clone_drconf_property(struct device_node *dn)
 		return NULL;
 
 	new_prop->name = kstrdup(prop->name, GFP_KERNEL);
-	new_prop->value = kmalloc(prop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_prop->value = kmemdup(prop->value, prop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_prop->name || !new_prop->value) {
 		dlpar_free_drconf_property(new_prop);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(new_prop->value, prop->value, prop->length);
 	new_prop->length = prop->length;
 
 	/* Convert the property to cpu endian-ness */
-- 
1.9.1



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