linux-kernel - [Patch] ptrace: fix an unreachable statement

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:56:58 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [Patch] ptrace: fix an unreachable statement


commit c2724775ce57c98b8af9694857b941dc61056516 put a statement after
return, which makes that statement unreachable.

Move that statement before return.

Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@...el.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 06ca07f..f7d38d6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -690,9 +690,8 @@ static int ptrace_bts_config(struct task_struct *child,
 		if (!cfg.signal)
 			return -EINVAL;
 
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 		child->thread.bts_ovfl_signal = cfg.signal;
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	}
 
 	if ((cfg.flags & PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC) &&


 
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