From 6a5640f10255a8941a3a57396dda20af7a5c9a9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 01:41:52 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] compat: remove unnecessary assignment in
 compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()

*@ret_pointer is initialized to @fast_pointer thus the assignment is
redundant.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/compat.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index eb1740ac8c0a..d717442c4133 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -597,10 +597,8 @@ ssize_t compat_rw_copy_check_uvector(int type,
 	if (nr_segs > fast_segs) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		iov = kmalloc(nr_segs*sizeof(struct iovec), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (iov == NULL) {
-			*ret_pointer = fast_pointer;
+		if (iov == NULL)
 			goto out;
-		}
 	}
 	*ret_pointer = iov;
 
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