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authorMuhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>2016-05-23 16:24:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-23 17:04:14 -0700
commitde6cdcb5ce504c9d346858569e4ad2ca3ac2fe45 (patch)
tree0eb22528b8c516bd89eba2abc85320be80eba575 /drivers
parenta831979f855f1a19db1b3b194c5fab5e04ad26ff (diff)
downloadlinux-de6cdcb5ce504c9d346858569e4ad2ca3ac2fe45.tar.gz
drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block: use kmemdup
Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated
region.  It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single
call to kmemdup.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded cast to void*]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463665743-16269-1-git-send-email-falakreyaz@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
index 922a750640e8..0fb27d338811 100644
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c
@@ -1033,12 +1033,11 @@ static int mspro_block_read_attributes(struct memstick_dev *card)
 	}
 	msb->attr_group.name = "media_attributes";
 
-	buffer = kmalloc(attr_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	buffer = kmemdup(attr, attr_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buffer) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_free_attr;
 	}
-	memcpy(buffer, (char *)attr, attr_len);
 
 	for (cnt = 0; cnt < attr_count; ++cnt) {
 		s_attr = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mspro_sys_attr), GFP_KERNEL);