he postfix operator. gcc 4.4 produced the correct code (increment the pointer and assign the value), but a MIPS compiler that one of John's clients used assigned the old (unincremented) value. Remove the unnecessary assignment to make all compilers produce the correct assembly. Signed-off-by: John Youn Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman T