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* [LTP] [PATCH v2 1/5] kernel/syscalls/ipc/lib: Don't allocate memory for getpwnam()
@ 2015-05-12  6:27 Wei,Jiangang
  2015-05-12  6:27 ` [LTP] [PATCH v2 2/5] kernel/mem/hugetlb/lib: remove unused codes " Wei,Jiangang
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From: Wei,Jiangang @ 2015-05-12  6:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ltp-list

The getpwnam() function returns a pointer for a passwd
structure. So,
It's enough to declare a pointer to this structure,
not to allocate memory for it.

Signed-off-by: Wei,Jiangang <weijg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/lib/libipc.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/lib/libipc.c b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/lib/libipc.c
index f10e257..4de7faa 100644
--- a/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/lib/libipc.c
+++ b/testcases/kernel/syscalls/ipc/lib/libipc.c
@@ -143,12 +143,6 @@ int getuserid(char *user)
 {
 	struct passwd *ent;
 
-	/* allocate some space for the passwd struct */
-	if ((ent = malloc(sizeof(struct passwd))) == NULL) {
-		tst_brkm(TBROK, cleanup, "couldn't allocate space for passwd"
-			 " structure");
-	}
-
 	/* get the uid value for the user */
 	if ((ent = getpwnam(user)) == NULL) {
 		tst_brkm(TBROK, cleanup, "Couldn't get password entry for %s",
-- 
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