The check that map is empty is already done in the bpf_map__fd (map) function and returns an err_no, which does not run further checks. In addition, even if the check for map is run, the return is a pointer, which is not consistent with the err_number returned by bpf_map__fd (map). Signed-off-by: Yang Ruibin <11162571@xxxxxxxx> --- tools/perf/util/bpf_map.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf_map.c b/tools/perf/util/bpf_map.c index 81a4d5a7ccf7..578f27d2d6b4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/bpf_map.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf_map.c @@ -35,9 +35,6 @@ int bpf_map__fprintf(struct bpf_map *map, FILE *fp) if (fd < 0) return fd; - if(!map) - return PTR_ERR(map); - err = -ENOMEM; key = malloc(bpf_map__key_size(map)); if (key == NULL) -- 2.34.1