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authorJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>2008-05-12 14:02:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-05-13 08:02:26 -0700
commitf36f21ecca9ee688301174e5f2e0827827a7a7ff (patch)
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Fix misuses of bdevname()
bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping buffers.) Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blktrace.c')
-rw-r--r--block/blktrace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/blktrace.c b/block/blktrace.c
index 568588cd16b2..b2cbb4e5d767 100644
--- a/block/blktrace.c
+++ b/block/blktrace.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
switch (cmd) {
case BLKTRACESETUP:
- strcpy(b, bdevname(bdev, b));
+ bdevname(bdev, b);
ret = blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, arg);
break;
case BLKTRACESTART: