[PATCH 05/31] arch/powerpc/nvram: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
From: Andrzej Hajda <hidden>
Date: 2015-08-07 08:00:36
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Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 1e703f8..6f6597b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c@@ -541,10 +541,9 @@ static ssize_t nvram_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type, time->tv_sec = be64_to_cpu(oops_hdr->timestamp); time->tv_nsec = 0; } - *buf = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL); + *buf = kmemdup(buff + hdr_size, length, GFP_KERNEL); if (*buf == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(*buf, buff + hdr_size, length); kfree(buff); if (err_type == ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ)
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