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mac80211: Use kstrdup to simplify code

Message ID 1436383927-14010-1-git-send-email-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr (mailing list archive)
State Changes Requested
Delegated to: Johannes Berg
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Christophe JAILLET July 8, 2015, 7:32 p.m. UTC
Replace a kmalloc+strcpy by an equivalent kstrdup in order to improve
readability.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Emmanuel Grumbach July 8, 2015, 7:53 p.m. UTC | #1
The subject is wrong. You are not patch mac80211, but bcrmsmac.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Christophe JAILLET
<christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Replace a kmalloc+strcpy by an equivalent kstrdup in order to improve
> readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> index 4813506..8a6c077 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> @@ -1476,9 +1476,7 @@ struct brcms_timer *brcms_init_timer(struct brcms_info *wl,
>         wl->timers = t;
>
>  #ifdef DEBUG
> -       t->name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -       if (t->name)
> -               strcpy(t->name, name);
> +       t->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_ATOMIC);
>  #endif
>
>         return t;
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
index 4813506..8a6c077 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
@@ -1476,9 +1476,7 @@  struct brcms_timer *brcms_init_timer(struct brcms_info *wl,
 	wl->timers = t;
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
-	t->name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
-	if (t->name)
-		strcpy(t->name, name);
+	t->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_ATOMIC);
 #endif
 
 	return t;