[PATCH 16/31] net/cavium/liquidio: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

Andrzej Hajda a.hajda at samsung.com
Wed Sep 16 03:02:24 PDT 2015


Ping.

Regards
Andrzej

On 08/07/2015 09:59 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 <a.hajda at samsung.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
> index f67641a..8e23e3f 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
> @@ -602,12 +602,10 @@ int octeon_download_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct, const u8 *data,
>  	snprintf(oct->fw_info.liquidio_firmware_version, 32, "LIQUIDIO: %s",
>  		 h->version);
>  
> -	buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!buffer)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	memcpy(buffer, data, size);
> -
>  	p = buffer + sizeof(struct octeon_firmware_file_header);
>  
>  	/* load all images */




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