Re: [patch] tracing: Remove an unneeded check

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Apr 20 2012 - 09:51:21 EST


On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 09:31 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> memcpy() returns a pointer to "bug". Hopefully, it's not NULL here or
> we would already have Oopsed.

You're right that the ret is useless, and the real bug was already fixed
(the possibility that buf could be an invalid pointer).

Not only is this needed, but also get rid of the ret < 0 check in
tracing_splice_read_pipe().

-- Steve


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