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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] tracing: Remove an unneeded check
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:31:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120420063145.GA22649@elgon.mountain> (raw)

memcpy() returns a pointer to "bug".  Hopefully, it's not NULL here or
we would already have Oopsed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ed7b5d1..c2d5b71 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -629,7 +629,6 @@ ssize_t trace_seq_to_user(struct trace_seq *s, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt)
 static ssize_t trace_seq_to_buffer(struct trace_seq *s, void *buf, size_t cnt)
 {
 	int len;
-	void *ret;
 
 	if (s->len <= s->readpos)
 		return -EBUSY;
@@ -637,9 +636,7 @@ static ssize_t trace_seq_to_buffer(struct trace_seq *s, void *buf, size_t cnt)
 	len = s->len - s->readpos;
 	if (cnt > len)
 		cnt = len;
-	ret = memcpy(buf, s->buffer + s->readpos, cnt);
-	if (!ret)
-		return -EFAULT;
+	memcpy(buf, s->buffer + s->readpos, cnt);
 
 	s->readpos += cnt;
 	return cnt;

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] tracing: Remove an unneeded check
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:31:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120420063145.GA22649@elgon.mountain> (raw)

memcpy() returns a pointer to "bug".  Hopefully, it's not NULL here or
we would already have Oopsed.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ed7b5d1..c2d5b71 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -629,7 +629,6 @@ ssize_t trace_seq_to_user(struct trace_seq *s, char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt)
 static ssize_t trace_seq_to_buffer(struct trace_seq *s, void *buf, size_t cnt)
 {
 	int len;
-	void *ret;
 
 	if (s->len <= s->readpos)
 		return -EBUSY;
@@ -637,9 +636,7 @@ static ssize_t trace_seq_to_buffer(struct trace_seq *s, void *buf, size_t cnt)
 	len = s->len - s->readpos;
 	if (cnt > len)
 		cnt = len;
-	ret = memcpy(buf, s->buffer + s->readpos, cnt);
-	if (!ret)
-		return -EFAULT;
+	memcpy(buf, s->buffer + s->readpos, cnt);
 
 	s->readpos += cnt;
 	return cnt;

             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-20  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-20  6:31 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2012-04-20  6:31 ` [patch] tracing: Remove an unneeded check Dan Carpenter
2012-04-20 13:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-20 13:51   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-20 14:03   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-04-20 14:03     ` Dan Carpenter
2012-04-20 14:26     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-20 14:26       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 21:02 ` [tip:perf/core] tracing: Remove an unneeded check in trace_seq_buffer() tip-bot for Dan Carpenter

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