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[media] pwc: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Thomas Meyer 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 1 additions and 2 deletions
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      drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-ctrl.c

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drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-ctrl.c

@@ -113,10 +113,9 @@ static int _send_control_msg(struct pwc_device *pdev,
 	void *kbuf = NULL;
 
 	if (buflen) {
-		kbuf = kmalloc(buflen, GFP_KERNEL); /* not allowed on stack */
+		kbuf = kmemdup(buf, buflen, GFP_KERNEL); /* not allowed on stack */
 		if (kbuf == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-		memcpy(kbuf, buf, buflen);
 	}
 
 	rc = usb_control_msg(pdev->udev, usb_sndctrlpipe(pdev->udev, 0),