Commit 801822d1 authored by Shyam Saini's avatar Shyam Saini Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarShyam Saini <mayhs11saini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5671e8c1
......@@ -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)
......
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