From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> 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.hun...@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> Fixes: c8b5f2c96d1b ("tools: Introduce str_error_r()") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-xr83cd4y4r3cn6tq6w4f5...@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/target.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 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; } -- 2.7.4