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 <milt...@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <n...@us.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
index 72d8054..6004c81 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;
}
--
1.7.0.4
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