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diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/351-0006-brcmfmac-use-kmemdup.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/351-0006-brcmfmac-use-kmemdup.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..913752c19d --- /dev/null +++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/351-0006-brcmfmac-use-kmemdup.patch @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +From: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> +Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 19:29:03 +0530 +Subject: [PATCH] brcmfmac: use kmemdup + +Use kmemdup when some other buffer is immediately copied into allocated +region. It replaces call to allocation followed by memcpy, by a single +call to kmemdup. + +Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com> +Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> +Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> +--- + +--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c ++++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c +@@ -6666,11 +6666,10 @@ struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *brcmf_cfg802 + return NULL; + } + +- ops = kzalloc(sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL); ++ ops = kmemdup(&brcmf_cfg80211_ops, sizeof(*ops), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!ops) + return NULL; + +- memcpy(ops, &brcmf_cfg80211_ops, sizeof(*ops)); + ifp = netdev_priv(ndev); + #ifdef CONFIG_PM + if (brcmf_feat_is_enabled(ifp, BRCMF_FEAT_WOWL_GTK)) |