From e72ed6b509a62605fe9aca195c6037abdda6c1ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:05:49 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Use kmemdup

While looking at some code paths I came across this code that zeros
memory then copies over the entire length.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
index 75d336ab01bc..b74a9230edc9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
@@ -55,13 +55,12 @@ static struct property *dlpar_parse_cc_property(struct cc_workarea *ccwa)
 
 	prop->length = ccwa->prop_length;
 	value = (char *)ccwa + ccwa->prop_offset;
-	prop->value = kzalloc(prop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
+	prop->value = kmemdup(value, prop->length, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!prop->value) {
 		dlpar_free_cc_property(prop);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	memcpy(prop->value, value, prop->length);
 	return prop;
 }
 
-- 
2.20.1