[PATCH] cpuset crapectomy

Switched cpuset_common_file_read() to simple_read_from_buffer(), killed
a bunch of useless (and not quite correct - e.g.  min(size_t,ssize_t))
code.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 6a6e87b2f2f..45a5719a010 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -968,8 +968,6 @@ static ssize_t cpuset_common_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
         char *page;
         ssize_t retval = 0;
         char *s;
-        char *start;
-        ssize_t n;
 
         if (!(page = (char *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)))
                 return -ENOMEM;
@@ -999,15 +997,7 @@ static ssize_t cpuset_common_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
         *s++ = '\n';
         *s = '\0';
 
-        start = page + *ppos;
-        n = s - start;
-
-        /* Do nothing if *ppos is at the eof or beyond the eof. */
-        if (n <= 0)
-                goto out;
-
-        retval = n - copy_to_user(buf, start, min(n, nbytes));
-        *ppos += retval;
+        retval = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, nbytes, ppos, page, s - page);
 out:
         free_page((unsigned long)page);
         return retval;