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authorPetr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>2026-02-19 17:27:03 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2026-03-23 20:16:45 -0400
commitf55c09dabbabcbb119d1c0f8182fb4b69338bcd5 (patch)
tree2dd54351ee8be0bed55705d41848b3609f5d6496 /kernel/trace
parent473e470f16f98569d59adc11c4a318780fb68fe9 (diff)
tracing: Remove unnecessary check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED
The event_filter_write() function calls event_file_file() to retrieve a trace_event_file associated with a given file struct. If a non-NULL pointer is returned, the function then checks whether the trace_event_file instance has the EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag set. This check is redundant because event_file_file() already performs this validation and returns NULL if the flag is set. The err value is also already initialized to -ENODEV. Remove the unnecessary check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in event_filter_write(). Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219162737.314231-4-petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_events.c8
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 249d1cba72c0..26d1e95a55d1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -2247,12 +2247,8 @@ event_filter_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
file = event_file_file(filp);
- if (file) {
- if (file->flags & EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED)
- err = -ENODEV;
- else
- err = apply_event_filter(file, buf);
- }
+ if (file)
+ err = apply_event_filter(file, buf);
mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
kfree(buf);