Commit-ID: 85c617abc786d7da9e95c0b4174159864dd3f85c
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/85c617abc786d7da9e95c0b4174159864dd3f85c
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 22 May 2017 12:03:49 +0300
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:50:05 +0200
perf/core: Remove some dead code
perf_init_event() can't return NULL. If it did, the error handling is
incomplete and we would crash. I have removed this confusing dead code.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522090348.5g7yyld5en3yeky4@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/events/core.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 6e75a5c..0028efa 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -9172,7 +9172,7 @@ static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event)
static struct pmu *perf_init_event(struct perf_event *event)
{
- struct pmu *pmu = NULL;
+ struct pmu *pmu;
int idx;
int ret;
@@ -9456,9 +9456,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
}
pmu = perf_init_event(event);
- if (!pmu)
- goto err_ns;
- else if (IS_ERR(pmu)) {
+ if (IS_ERR(pmu)) {
err = PTR_ERR(pmu);
goto err_ns;
}
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