1 files changed, 6 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/editors/patch.c b/editors/patch.c
index 9a3740882..666aa73a6 100644
--- a/editors/patch.c
+++ b/editors/patch.c
@@ -54,29 +54,19 @@ static unsigned int copy_lines(FILE *src_stream, FILE *dest_stream, const unsign
 
 static char *extract_filename(char *line, int patch_level)
 {
-        char *filename_start_ptr = line + 4;
+        char *temp, *filename_start_ptr = line + 4;
         int i;
 
         /* Terminate string at end of source filename */
-        {
-                char *line_ptr;
-                line_ptr = strchr(filename_start_ptr, '\t');
-                if (!line_ptr) {
-                        bb_perror_msg("Malformed line %s", line);
-                        return(NULL);
-                }
-                *line_ptr = '\0';
-        }
+        temp = strchr(filename_start_ptr, '\t');
+        if (temp)
+                *temp = 0;
 
         /* Skip over (patch_level) number of leading directories */
         for (i = 0; i < patch_level; i++) {
-                char *dirname_ptr;
-
-                dirname_ptr = strchr(filename_start_ptr, '/');
-                if (!dirname_ptr) {
+                if (!(temp = strchr(filename_start_ptr, '/')))
                         break;
-                }
-                filename_start_ptr = dirname_ptr + 1;
+                filename_start_ptr = temp + 1;
         }
 
         return(bb_xstrdup(filename_start_ptr));