Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating itsimplementation

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 10:47:37 EST


On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 00:05 +0100, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> The semantic patch that makes this change is available
> in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
> ---

The one-line description should refer to 'gianfar', not 'ethtool'.
(I expect David will fix this up.)

Ben.

> diff -u -p a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c 2011-11-07 19:37:57.036756543 +0100
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/gianfar_ethtool.c 2011-11-08 10:42:14.842512269 +0100
> @@ -1410,10 +1410,9 @@ static int gfar_optimize_filer_masks(str
>
> /* We need a copy of the filer table because
> * we want to change its order */
> - temp_table = kmalloc(sizeof(*temp_table), GFP_KERNEL);
> + temp_table = kmemdup(tab, sizeof(*temp_table), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (temp_table == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
> - memcpy(temp_table, tab, sizeof(*temp_table));
>
> mask_table = kcalloc(MAX_FILER_CACHE_IDX / 2 + 1,
> sizeof(struct gfar_mask_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
>


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Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

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