[PATCH] x86: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

[Thomas Meyer]

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
---

diff -u -p a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2011-11-07 19:37:39.656492567 +0100
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c 2011-11-08 11:02:12.018560408 +0100
@@ -293,13 +293,12 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flag
 	memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps));
 
 	if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) {
-		p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmalloc(IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
+		p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmemdup(me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr,
+						  IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr) {
 			p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0;
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
-		memcpy(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr,
-				IO_BITMAP_BYTES);
 		set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_IO_BITMAP);
 	}
 
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