linux-kernel - [git Patch] mm/util.c: Remove needless code

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Message-ID: <20071106031207.GA2478@hacking>
Date:	Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:12:07 +0800
From:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Dong Pu <cocobear.cn@...il.com>
Subject: [git Patch] mm/util.c: Remove needless code


If the code can be executed there, 'new_size' is always larger
than 'ks'. Thus min() is needless.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Dong Pu <cocobear.cn@...il.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

---
 mm/util.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 5f64026..295c7aa 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ void *krealloc(const void *p, size_t new_size, gfp_t flags)
 
 	ret = kmalloc_track_caller(new_size, flags);
 	if (ret) {
-		memcpy(ret, p, min(new_size, ks));
+		memcpy(ret, p, ks);
 		kfree(p);
 	}
 	return ret;

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