From: Thomas Meyer Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:43:40 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x86: Use kmemdup() in copy_thread(), rather than duplicating its implementation X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~8455^2~5 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cced40229993bb63238299e48a22e4c8d1e13181;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git x86: Use kmemdup() in copy_thread(), rather than duplicating its implementation The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321569820.1624.275.camel@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c index 3bd7e6e..d2c1f62 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c @@ -293,13 +293,12 @@ int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, memset(p->thread.ptrace_bps, 0, sizeof(p->thread.ptrace_bps)); if (unlikely(test_tsk_thread_flag(me, TIF_IO_BITMAP))) { - p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmalloc(IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL); + p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = kmemdup(me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, + IO_BITMAP_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL); if (!p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr) { p->thread.io_bitmap_max = 0; return -ENOMEM; } - memcpy(p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr, - IO_BITMAP_BYTES); set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_IO_BITMAP); }