[PATCH 05/31] arch/powerpc/nvram: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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)

-- 
1.9.1

On 08/07/2015 02:59 AM, Andrzej Hajda wrote:

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>

Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <redacted>

On Fri, 2015-07-08 at 07:59:11 UTC, Andrzej Hajda wrote:

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>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <redacted>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/fc9e9cbf4e48f28525ed

cheers