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authorAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>2008-02-07 00:13:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-07 08:42:17 -0800
commit3cdeed2986b09fcc77b4812ca10dbc057e4e5f8c (patch)
treee6d1880751b119358a30385a2a65deaec695f0b5 /kernel
parent8f1466ff0a6e81653e9bb0d9247495bf4e9db7e2 (diff)
kernel/cgroup.c: remove dead code
This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker (look at the "(nbytes >= PATH_MAX)" check). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c18
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 1a3c23936d43..ae367471b07b 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1355,16 +1355,14 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_common_file_write(struct cgroup *cgrp,
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;
}
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