The patch titled Subject: sysctl: drop away useless label has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was sysctl-drop-away-useless-label.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: sysctl: drop away useless label We have no locking in bin_uuid(). Thus, we may remove the out label and use return statements directly. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/sysctl_binary.c~sysctl-drop-away-useless-label kernel/sysctl_binary.c --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c~sysctl-drop-away-useless-label +++ a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c @@ -1123,15 +1123,14 @@ static ssize_t bin_uuid(struct file *fil result = kernel_read(file, 0, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1); if (result < 0) - goto out; + return result; buf[result] = '\0'; /* Convert the uuid to from a string to binary */ for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) { - result = -EIO; if (!isxdigit(str[0]) || !isxdigit(str[1])) - goto out; + return -EIO; uuid[i] = (hex_to_bin(str[0]) << 4) | hex_to_bin(str[1]); @@ -1143,15 +1142,12 @@ static ssize_t bin_uuid(struct file *fil if (oldlen > 16) oldlen = 16; - result = -EFAULT; if (copy_to_user(oldval, uuid, oldlen)) - goto out; + return -EFAULT; copied = oldlen; } - result = copied; -out: - return result; + return copied; } static ssize_t bin_dn_node_address(struct file *file, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are sysctl-use-generic-uuid-library.patch efi-redefine-type-constant-macro-from-generic-code.patch efivars-use-generic-uuid-library.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html