linux-kernel - [patch] simplify compat_sys

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2007 11:21:06 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] simplify compat_sys_timerfd.

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

Just thought this is easier to read.

Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
---

Feel free to ignore/drop.

 fs/compat.c |   13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/compat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/compat.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/compat.c
@@ -2230,21 +2230,16 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_signalfd(int 
 asmlinkage long compat_sys_timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags,
 				   const struct compat_itimerspec __user *utmr)
 {
-	long res;
 	struct itimerspec t;
 	struct itimerspec __user *ut;
 
-	res = -EFAULT;
 	if (get_compat_itimerspec(&t, utmr))
-		goto err_exit;
+		return -EFAULT;
 	ut = compat_alloc_user_space(sizeof(*ut));
-	if (copy_to_user(ut, &t, sizeof(t)) )
-		goto err_exit;
+	if (copy_to_user(ut, &t, sizeof(t)))
+		return -EFAULT;
 
-	res = sys_timerfd(ufd, clockid, flags, ut);
-err_exit:
-	return res;
+	return sys_timerfd(ufd, clockid, flags, ut);
 }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_TIMERFD */
-
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