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staging: rdma: hfi1: Replace kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup

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Replace kmalloc and memcpy with kmemdup. Found using Coccinelle.

The semantic patch used to make this change can be found here:
scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci

Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Amitoj Kaur Chawla 2016-02-16 00:55:25 +05:30 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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drivers/staging/rdma/hfi1/efivar.c
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@ -127,13 +127,12 @@ static int read_efi_var(const char *name, unsigned long *size,
* temporary buffer. Now allocate a correctly sized
* buffer.
*/
data = kmalloc(temp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
data = kmemdup(temp_buffer, temp_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!data) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto fail;
}
memcpy(data, temp_buffer, temp_size);
*size = temp_size;
*return_data = data;