[PATCH] dlm: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

From: Thomas Meyer
Date: Thu Nov 10 2011 - 13:49:46 EST


Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

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/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c
--- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c 2011-11-07 19:38:22.277139918 +0100
+++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c 2011-11-08 10:35:11.176833032 +0100
@@ -1086,10 +1086,9 @@ static void init_local(void)
if (dlm_our_addr(&sas, i))
break;

- addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_NOFS);
+ addr = kmemdup(&sas, sizeof(*addr), GFP_NOFS);
if (!addr)
break;
- memcpy(addr, &sas, sizeof(*addr));
dlm_local_addr[dlm_local_count++] = addr;
}
}


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