Instead of allocating two string buffers on stack and copying them back, manipulate directly the target string buffer. This simplifies the code well.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- sound/soc/soc-core.c | 27 +++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-core.c b/sound/soc/soc-core.c index 23732523f87c..ee86f84b7ccc 100644 --- a/sound/soc/soc-core.c +++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c @@ -92,30 +92,21 @@ static int format_register_str(struct snd_soc_codec *codec, int wordsize = min_bytes_needed(codec->driver->reg_cache_size) * 2; int regsize = codec->driver->reg_word_size * 2; int ret; - char tmpbuf[len + 1]; - char regbuf[regsize + 1]; - - /* since tmpbuf is allocated on the stack, warn the callers if they - * try to abuse this function */ - WARN_ON(len > 63);

/* +2 for ': ' and + 1 for '\n' */ if (wordsize + regsize + 2 + 1 != len) return -EINVAL;

- ret = snd_soc_read(codec, reg); - if (ret < 0) { - memset(regbuf, 'X', regsize); - regbuf[regsize] = '\0'; - } else { - snprintf(regbuf, regsize + 1, "%.*x", regsize, ret); - } - - /* prepare the buffer */ - snprintf(tmpbuf, len + 1, "%.*x: %s\n", wordsize, reg, regbuf); - /* copy it back to the caller without the '\0' */ - memcpy(buf, tmpbuf, len); + sprintf(buf, "%.*x: ", wordsize, reg); + buf += wordsize + 2;

+ ret = snd_soc_read(codec, reg); + if (ret < 0) + memset(buf, 'X', regsize); + else + sprintf(buf, "%.*x", regsize, ret); + buf[regsize] = '\n'; + /* no NUL-termination needed */ return 0; }