It simplifies the code. The "price" is we have to unify 'chunk' to be size_t the same as 'count' is. But that change is actually correct. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index 846460c02c58..0cf1277e260b 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -964,9 +964,8 @@ int tty_write_lock(struct tty_struct *tty, bool ndelay) static ssize_t iterate_tty_write(struct tty_ldisc *ld, struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, struct iov_iter *from) { - size_t count = iov_iter_count(from); + size_t chunk, count = iov_iter_count(from); ssize_t ret, written = 0; - unsigned int chunk; ret = tty_write_lock(tty, file->f_flags & O_NDELAY); if (ret < 0) @@ -1010,10 +1009,7 @@ static ssize_t iterate_tty_write(struct tty_ldisc *ld, struct tty_struct *tty, /* Do the write .. */ for (;;) { - size_t size = count; - - if (size > chunk) - size = chunk; + size_t size = min(chunk, count); ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_iter(tty->write_buf, size, from) != size) -- 2.41.0