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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2012-04-20 09:31:45 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2012-04-23 21:16:10 -0400
commit5a26c8f0cf1e95106858bb4e23ca6dd14c9b842f (patch)
tree0e4d5a45f2ce667f3560a9171e11178437ca24a5 /kernel/trace
parent07d777fe8c3985bc83428c2866713c2d1b3d4129 (diff)
downloadlinux-5a26c8f0cf1e95106858bb4e23ca6dd14c9b842f.tar.bz2
tracing: Remove an unneeded check in trace_seq_buffer()
memcpy() returns a pointer to "bug". Hopefully, it's not NULL here or we would already have Oopsed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120420063145.GA22649@elgon.mountain Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 1ab8e35d069b..bbcde546f9f7 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;