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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-07-29 17:54:35 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-07-29 17:54:35 +0300
commitce92834407a465c25c0be1a4a0339c625e44c4db (patch)
tree9e92abb0502396934f714b404f13f15d1cceba38 /tools
parent9955d0be161a9baa241ae7b98426a4c705cb21cb (diff)
downloadlinux-ce92834407a465c25c0be1a4a0339c625e44c4db.tar.xz
perf target: str_error_r() always returns the buffer it receives
So no need for checking if it uses the strerror_r() GNU variant error reporting mechanism, i.e. if it returns a pointer to a immutable string internal to glibc. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Fixes: c8b5f2c96d1b ("tools: Introduce str_error_r()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xr83cd4y4r3cn6tq6w4f59jb@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/target.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/target.c b/tools/perf/util/target.c
index 8cdcf4641c51..21c4d9b23c24 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/target.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/target.c
@@ -122,11 +122,7 @@ int target__strerror(struct target *target, int errnum,
BUG_ON(buflen == 0);
if (errnum >= 0) {
- const char *err = str_error_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
-
- if (err != buf)
- scnprintf(buf, buflen, "%s", err);
-
+ str_error_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
return 0;
}