The benefits are:
* code is cleaner
* kmemdup adds additional debugging info useful for tracking the real
place where memory was allocated (CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB).
Signed-off-by: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur <mihneadb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
int j;
/* Stage 1: Make a safe copy of the shadow state. */
- copy = kmalloc(sizeof(info->shadow),
+ copy = kmemdup(info->shadow, sizeof(info->shadow),
GFP_NOIO | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_HIGH);
if (!copy)
return -ENOMEM;
- memcpy(copy, info->shadow, sizeof(info->shadow));
/* Stage 2: Set up free list. */
memset(&info->shadow, 0, sizeof(info->shadow));