[PATCH] [media] drxd: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating itsimplementation

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 04:27:57 EST


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/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c 2011-11-07 19:37:48.623295422 +0100
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drxd_hard.c 2011-11-08 10:48:49.317800208 +0100
@@ -914,14 +914,13 @@ static int load_firmware(struct drxd_sta
return -EIO;
}

- state->microcode = kmalloc(fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ state->microcode = kmemdup(fw->data, fw->size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (state->microcode == NULL) {
release_firmware(fw);
printk(KERN_ERR "drxd: firmware load failure: no memory\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}

- memcpy(state->microcode, fw->data, fw->size);
state->microcode_length = fw->size;
release_firmware(fw);
return 0;
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