From 6dea0da1fff9ec1fcfc989e13cde451d5e7604ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hema Prathaban Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:01:22 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: Use kmemdup for duplicating memory Instead of allocating memory (kmalloc) and copying (memcpy) from source, memory can be duplicated using kmemdup Signed-off-by: Hema Prathaban Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c index 8af0b9902615..aefffac556a6 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c @@ -1801,10 +1801,9 @@ static inline u16 auth_parse(struct sk_buff *skb, u8** challenge, int *chlen) if (*(t++) == MFIE_TYPE_CHALLENGE) { *chlen = *(t++); - *challenge = kmalloc(*chlen, GFP_ATOMIC); + *challenge = kmemdup(t, *chlen, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!*challenge) return -ENOMEM; - memcpy(*challenge, t, *chlen); } } return cpu_to_le16(a->status); -- 2.11.0