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().
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index e8ed6ba155cf..2ca76b048638 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -2153,12 +2153,8 @@ 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);
--
2.52.0