perf: Fix incorrect copy_from_user() usage

[net-next-2.6.git] / kernel / perf_event.c

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index db5b56064687e453c0df1cc118b975ea047bdcae..b98bed3d8182685ffff2b840c0ff4809b4f65cb8 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -2202,15 +2202,13 @@ static void perf_event_for_each(struct perf_event *event,
 static int perf_event_period(struct perf_event *event, u64 __user *arg)
 {
        struct perf_event_context *ctx = event->ctx;
-       unsigned long size;
        int ret = 0;
        u64 value;
 
        if (!event->attr.sample_period)
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       size = copy_from_user(&value, arg, sizeof(value));
-       if (size != sizeof(value))
+       if (copy_from_user(&value, arg, sizeof(value)))
                return -EFAULT;
 
        if (!value)