Commit 917162c9 authored by Rasmus Villemoes's avatar Rasmus Villemoes Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: return tty->name directly from tty_name

All users of tty_name pass the return value (the provided buffer) to
some printf-like function. We can thus avoid the strcpy and, more
importantly, later remove the buf parameter completely, eliminating
the need for some 64 byte stack buffers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 1d6b9877
......@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static void tty_del_file(struct file *file)
/**
* tty_name - return tty naming
* @tty: tty structure
* @buf: buffer for output
* @buf: unused
*
* Convert a tty structure into a name. The name reflects the kernel
* naming policy and if udev is in use may not reflect user space
......@@ -246,10 +246,8 @@ static void tty_del_file(struct file *file)
const char *tty_name(const struct tty_struct *tty, char *buf)
{
if (!tty) /* Hmm. NULL pointer. That's fun. */
strcpy(buf, "NULL tty");
else
strcpy(buf, tty->name);
return buf;
return "NULL tty";
return tty->name;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_name);
......
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