[patch] tracing: Remove an unneeded check

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Apr 20 2012 - 02:32:40 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

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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