Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] brcmsmac: Use kstrdup to simplify code

From: Arend van Spriel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 20:36:40 +0200

On 07/08/2015 10:22 PM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Replace a kmalloc+strcpy by an equivalent kstrdup in order to improve
> readability.

Not sure if readability is really the issue here. At most it is a small 
reduction of driver code by using kstrdup(). Anyway, the patch looks fine so

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <[email-masked]>
> ---
> v2: fix the subject
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> index 4813506..8a6c077 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> @@ -1476,9 +1476,7 @@ struct brcms_timer *brcms_init_timer(struct brcms_info *wl,
>   	wl->timers = t;
>
>   #ifdef DEBUG
> -	t->name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	if (t->name)
> -		strcpy(t->name, name);
> +	t->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_ATOMIC);
>   #endif
>
>   	return t;
>