From e72ed6b509a62605fe9aca195c6037abdda6c1ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:05:49 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c index 75d336ab01b..b74a9230edc 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2