From: Muhammad Falak R Wani 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 Acked-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo --- --- 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))