The patch titled
kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kernel-cgroupc-remove-dead-code.patch
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Subject: kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker
(look at the "(nbytes >= PATH_MAX)" check).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 18 ++++++++----------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/cgroup.c~kernel-cgroupc-remove-dead-code kernel/cgroup.c
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c~kernel-cgroupc-remove-dead-code
+++ a/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1357,16 +1357,14 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_common_file_write(
if (nbytes && (buffer[nbytes-1] == '\n')) {
buffer[nbytes-1] = 0;
}
- if (nbytes < sizeof(root->release_agent_path)) {
- /* We never write anything other than '\0'
- * into the last char of release_agent_path,
- * so it always remains a NUL-terminated
- * string */
- strncpy(root->release_agent_path, buffer, nbytes);
- root->release_agent_path[nbytes] = 0;
- } else {
- retval = -ENOSPC;
- }
+
+ /* We never write anything other than '\0'
+ * into the last char of release_agent_path,
+ * so it always remains a NUL-terminated
+ * string */
+ strncpy(root->release_agent_path, buffer, nbytes);
+ root->release_agent_path[nbytes] = 0;
+
break;
}
default:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bunk@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
ipmi-fix-comparison-in-demangle_device_id.patch
git-acpi.patch
git-dvb.patch
git-hwmon.patch
git-nfs-make-nfs_wb_page_priority-static.patch
git-ocfs2.patch
git-sh64.patch
sunrpc-xprtrdma-transportc-fix-use-after-free.patch
fix-mm-utilckrealloc.patch
fuse_file_alloc-fix-null-dereferences.patch
make-jbd-journalc__journal_abort_hard-static.patch
kernel-cgroupc-remove-dead-code.patch
memory-controller-add-per-container-lru-and-reclaim-v7.patch
memory-controller-add-switch-to-control-what-type-of-pages-to-limit-v7.patch
reiser4.patch
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