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authorAndrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>2015-08-07 09:59:11 +0200
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2015-08-18 19:34:43 +1000
commitfc9e9cbf4e48f28525edd27e285820988f1a54b1 (patch)
treeff784f97209712e4fe79c90af10ecc7d3e7f6e42 /arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
parentpowerpc/pseries: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation (diff)
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powerpc/nvram: use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
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@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
index 1e703f8ebad4..6f6597b3966b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c
@@ -541,10 +541,9 @@ static ssize_t nvram_pstore_read(u64 *id, enum pstore_type_id *type,
time->tv_sec = be64_to_cpu(oops_hdr->timestamp);
time->tv_nsec = 0;
}
- *buf = kmalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ *buf = kmemdup(buff + hdr_size, length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (*buf == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(*buf, buff + hdr_size, length);
kfree(buff);
if (err_type == ERR_TYPE_KERNEL_PANIC_GZ)