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| author | Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com> | 2016-12-24 00:44:58 +0530 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-12-29 11:37:14 -0500 |
| commit | 801822d1beea4f11a38df991b420ca917f6a917b (patch) | |
| tree | 2e8ccd20864425053597d8c8448151463f7f7f70 /drivers/net/virtio_net.c | |
| parent | 5671e8c19c8cb4dd432e54f5bc5e2e9a9bac894b (diff) | |
| download | linux-801822d1beea4f11a38df991b420ca917f6a917b.tar.bz2 | |
net: Use kmemdup instead of kmalloc and memcpy
when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated region.
Replace calls to kmalloc followed by a memcpy with a direct
call to kmemdup.
Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/virtio_net.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index 4a105006ca63..2cea022e6e6e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1236,10 +1236,9 @@ static int virtnet_set_mac_address(struct net_device *dev, void *p) struct sockaddr *addr; struct scatterlist sg; - addr = kmalloc(sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL); + addr = kmemdup(p, sizeof(*addr), GFP_KERNEL); if (!addr) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(addr, p, sizeof(*addr)); ret = eth_prepare_mac_addr_change(dev, addr); if (ret) |