linux-kernel - [QUEUED v20160420 08/19] stm class: Remove unnecessary pointer increment

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:43:21 +0300
From:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>,
	laurent.fert@...el.com, yann.fouassier@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [QUEUED v20160420 08/19] stm class: Remove unnecessary pointer increment

Readability: a postfix increment is used on a pointer which is not
used anywhere afterwards, which may send the reader looking through
the function one extra time. Drop the unnecessary increment.

Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan.cox@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Fert <laurent.fert@...el.com>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c
index e8b50b1ac6..6c0ae29963 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/policy.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ stp_policies_make(struct config_group *group, const char *name)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
-	*p++ = '\0';
+	*p = '\0';
 
 	stm = stm_find_device(devname);
 	kfree(devname);
-- 
2.8.0.rc3