Fix misuses of bdevname()

bdevname() fills the buffer that it is given as a parameter, so calling
strcpy() or snprintf() on the returned value is redundant (and probably not
guaranteed to work - I don't think strcpy and snprintf support overlapping
buffers.)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/block/blktrace.c b/block/blktrace.c
index 568588cd16b2..b2cbb4e5d767 100644
--- a/block/blktrace.c
+++ b/block/blktrace.c
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ int blk_trace_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, char __user *arg)
 
         switch (cmd) {
         case BLKTRACESETUP:
-                strcpy(b, bdevname(bdev, b));
+                bdevname(bdev, b);
                 ret = blk_trace_setup(q, b, bdev->bd_dev, arg);
                 break;
         case BLKTRACESTART:
diff --git a/block/compat_ioctl.c b/block/compat_ioctl.c
index c70d0b6f666f..c23177e4623f 100644
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ static int compat_blk_trace_setup(struct block_device *bdev, char __user *arg)
         if (copy_from_user(&cbuts, arg, sizeof(cbuts)))
                 return -EFAULT;
 
-        strcpy(b, bdevname(bdev, b));
+        bdevname(bdev, b);
 
         buts = (struct blk_user_trace_setup) {
                 .act_mask = cbuts.act_mask,