From 801822d1beea4f11a38df991b420ca917f6a917b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shyam Saini Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:44:58 +0530 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/virtio_net.c') 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) -- cgit