[PATCH 2/5] tracing: Remove an unneeded check in trace_seq_buffer()

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

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>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 1ab8e35..bbcde54 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;
-- 
1.7.9.5



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