Re: [PATCH] error-injection: remove meaningless null pointer check before debugfs_remove_recursive

From: zhong jiang
Date: Mon Sep 10 2018 - 03:48:47 EST


On 2018/9/10 15:21, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> debugfs_remove_recursive has taken the null pointer into account.
>> just remove the null check before debugfs_remove_recursive.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> kernel/fail_function.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/fail_function.c b/kernel/fail_function.c
>> index bc80a4e..17f75b5 100644
>> --- a/kernel/fail_function.c
>> +++ b/kernel/fail_function.c
>> @@ -173,8 +173,7 @@ static void fei_debugfs_remove_attr(struct fei_attr *attr)
>> struct dentry *dir;
>>
>> dir = debugfs_lookup(attr->kp.symbol_name, fei_debugfs_dir);
>> - if (dir)
>> - debugfs_remove_recursive(dir);
>> + debugfs_remove_recursive(dir);
>> }
>>
>> static int fei_kprobe_handler(struct kprobe *kp, struct pt_regs *regs)
> Please Cc: such patches to lkml and akpm.
Ok, will do.
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
>
>