Used kmemdup instead of replicating it's behaviour with kmalloc followed by memcpy. Patch found using coccinelle.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghiu <gheorghiuan...@gmail.com> --- sound/oss/sb_common.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/sound/oss/sb_common.c b/sound/oss/sb_common.c index 7d42c54..851a1da 100644 --- a/sound/oss/sb_common.c +++ b/sound/oss/sb_common.c @@ -626,13 +626,12 @@ int sb_dsp_detect(struct address_info *hw_config, int pci, int pciio, struct sb_ */ - detected_devc = kmalloc(sizeof(sb_devc), GFP_KERNEL); + detected_devc = kmemdup(devc, sizeof(sb_devc), GFP_KERNEL); if (detected_devc == NULL) { printk(KERN_ERR "sb: Can't allocate memory for device information\n"); return 0; } - memcpy(detected_devc, devc, sizeof(sb_devc)); MDB(printk(KERN_INFO "SB %d.%02d detected OK (%x)\n", devc->major, devc->minor, hw_config->io_base)); return 1; } -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/