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authorNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>2010-09-15 08:05:49 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-10-13 16:19:22 +1100
commite72ed6b509a62605fe9aca195c6037abdda6c1ac (patch)
treefe5d88cc52ba4df1a323bc575677f6a33785614c /arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
parent45848e0fc1fce399651b3f480bdeb82cc6d3d15a (diff)
powerpc/pseries: Use kmemdup
While looking at some code paths I came across this code that zeros memory then copies over the entire length. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
index 75d336ab01bc..b74a9230edc9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
@@ -55,13 +55,12 @@ static struct property *dlpar_parse_cc_property(struct cc_workarea *ccwa)
prop->length = ccwa->prop_length;
value = (char *)ccwa + ccwa->prop_offset;
- prop->value = kzalloc(prop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ prop->value = kmemdup(value, prop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!prop->value) {
dlpar_free_cc_property(prop);
return NULL;
}
- memcpy(prop->value, value, prop->length);
return prop;
}