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authorRob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk>2014-10-13 15:54:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-14 02:18:23 +0200
commitd66a0520cb46fb4f86b070e5f1926f6e53f23b38 (patch)
treeb7281faa4e9b6bffe7215d1bb875830e6ca64e99 /ipc
parentbf77b94c99ad5df0d97a52522fc7a220c0bf44fe (diff)
ipc/util.c: use __seq_open_private() instead of seq_open()
Using __seq_open_private() removes boilerplate code from sysvipc_proc_open(). The resultant code is shorter and easier to follow. However, please note that __seq_open_private() call kzalloc() rather than kmalloc() which may affect timing due to the memory initialisation overhead. Signed-off-by: Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/util.c20
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/util.c b/ipc/util.c
index d73b7af581e2..88adc329888c 100644
--- a/ipc/util.c
+++ b/ipc/util.c
@@ -892,28 +892,16 @@ static const struct seq_operations sysvipc_proc_seqops = {
static int sysvipc_proc_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
- int ret;
- struct seq_file *seq;
struct ipc_proc_iter *iter;
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- iter = kmalloc(sizeof(*iter), GFP_KERNEL);
+ iter = __seq_open_private(file, &sysvipc_proc_seqops, sizeof(*iter));
if (!iter)
- goto out;
-
- ret = seq_open(file, &sysvipc_proc_seqops);
- if (ret) {
- kfree(iter);
- goto out;
- }
-
- seq = file->private_data;
- seq->private = iter;
+ return -ENOMEM;
iter->iface = PDE_DATA(inode);
iter->ns = get_ipc_ns(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
-out:
- return ret;
+
+ return 0;
}
static int sysvipc_proc_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)