Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Redundant assignment of dup_name in sysfs_rename

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:01:02PM +0530, Sasikantha babu wrote:
> It is redundant to assign "kstrdup" of "new_value" to "dup_name",
> Since we are overwriting "dup_name" with "sd->s_name"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasikantha babu <sasikanth.v19@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/sysfs/dir.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
> index 35a36d3..4abd424 100644
> --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
> @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ int sysfs_rename(struct sysfs_dirent *sd,
>  	/* rename sysfs_dirent */
>  	if (strcmp(sd->s_name, new_name) != 0) {
>  		error = -ENOMEM;
> -		new_name = dup_name = kstrdup(new_name, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		new_name = kstrdup(new_name, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!new_name)
>  			goto out;

Why not get rid of dup_name entirely now as it really isn't used at all?
That would make a more "complete" patch, care to redo this?

greg k-h
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