linux-kernel - [Patch] ptrace: remove a useless goto

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:34:47 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: [Patch] ptrace: remove a useless goto


Obviously, this goto is useless. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>

---
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index c9cf48b..1379559 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -612,8 +612,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, long, request, long, pid, long, addr, long, data)
 		goto out_put_task_struct;
 
 	ret = arch_ptrace(child, request, addr, data);
-	if (ret < 0)
-		goto out_put_task_struct;
 
  out_put_task_struct:
 	put_task_struct(child);

 
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