net:liquidio: 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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
index f67641a..8e23e3f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio/octeon_device.c
@@ -602,12 +602,10 @@
snprintf(oct->fw_info.liquidio_firmware_version, 32, "LIQUIDIO: %s",
h->version);
- buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buffer = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(buffer, data, size);
-
p = buffer + sizeof(struct octeon_firmware_file_header);
/* load all images */