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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html