Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated
region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single
call to kmemdup.
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakre...@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
index f67641a..8e23e3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
@@ -602,12 +602,10 @@ int octeon_download_firmware(struct octeon_device *oct,
const u8 *data,
snprintf(oct->fw_info.liquidio_firmware_version, 32, "LIQUIDIO: %s",
h->version);
- buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(buffer, data, size);
-
p = buffer + sizeof(struct octeon_firmware_file_header);
/* load all images */
--
1.9.1
