linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] kernel/user: remove unreachable code

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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:41:55 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/user: remove unreachable code

The code which executed this code was removed in 7c9414385ebfdd87cc542
(sched: Remove USER_SCHED). Remove the dangling code too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@...il.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/user.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 766467b..ec3b222 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -178,8 +178,6 @@ struct user_struct *alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
 
 	return up;
 
-	put_user_ns(new->user_ns);
-	kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
 out_unlock:
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
1.7.0.1


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