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authorRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>2015-03-31 16:55:58 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-06 23:26:57 +0300
commit917162c936936a37c51265b3add3885a15e66a82 (patch)
tree32be013b6c990971b84115fe3305d36dccbb8bba /drivers/tty/tty_io.c
parent1d6b98774cff82860a3f044610e956bcbff556c1 (diff)
downloadlinux-917162c936936a37c51265b3add3885a15e66a82.tar.xz
tty: return tty->name directly from tty_name
All users of tty_name pass the return value (the provided buffer) to some printf-like function. We can thus avoid the strcpy and, more importantly, later remove the buf parameter completely, eliminating the need for some 64 byte stack buffers. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_io.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/tty_io.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index 5a49a4a80ebd..1eaf0fbd99e4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static void tty_del_file(struct file *file)
/**
* tty_name - return tty naming
* @tty: tty structure
- * @buf: buffer for output
+ * @buf: unused
*
* Convert a tty structure into a name. The name reflects the kernel
* naming policy and if udev is in use may not reflect user space
@@ -246,10 +246,8 @@ static void tty_del_file(struct file *file)
const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty, char *buf)
{
if (!tty) /* Hmm. NULL pointer. That's fun. */
- strcpy(buf, "NULL tty");
- else
- strcpy(buf, tty->name);
- return buf;
+ return "NULL tty";
+ return tty->name;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_name);