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authorThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>2011-11-17 23:43:40 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-12-05 13:54:39 +0100
commitcced40229993bb63238299e48a22e4c8d1e13181 (patch)
tree4297bd47a2f61e35168d946751047662589b1936 /arch/x86/kernel
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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 <thomas@m3y3r.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321569820.1624.275.camel@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index 3bd7e6eebf31..d2c1f6208d62 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);
}