> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
>
> Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into the
> allocated region.
>
> A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is
> as
> follows: (
http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
>
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression from,to,size,flag;
> statement S;
> @@
>
> - to = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\)(size,flag);
> + to = kmemdup(from,size,flag);
> if (to==NULL || ...) S
> - memcpy(to, from, size);
> // </smpl>
>
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>