[PATCH] tracing: Cleanup event_enable_trigger_parse() by using __free()

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 17:53:56 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The enable_data variable gets freed on most error paths in
event_enable_trigger_parse(). Use free() to free it and just before
returning normally, call no_free_ptr(enable_data) to keep it from being
freed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
index 655db2e82513..fe5ca6ac7c8d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
@@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
char *glob, char *cmd, char *param_and_filter)
{
struct trace_event_file *event_enable_file;
- struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data;
+ struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data __free(kfree) = NULL;
struct event_trigger_data *trigger_data;
struct trace_array *tr = file->tr;
char *param, *filter;
@@ -1789,17 +1789,13 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
enable_data->file = event_enable_file;

trigger_data = trigger_data_alloc(cmd_ops, cmd, param, enable_data);
- if (!trigger_data) {
- kfree(enable_data);
+ if (!trigger_data)
return ret;
- }

if (remove) {
event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data);
kfree(trigger_data);
- kfree(enable_data);
- ret = 0;
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}

/* Up the trigger_data count to make sure nothing frees it on failure */
@@ -1829,6 +1825,7 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
goto out_disable;

event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
+ no_free_ptr(enable_data);
return ret;
out_disable:
trace_event_enable_disable(event_enable_file, 0, 1);
@@ -1837,7 +1834,6 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
out_free:
event_trigger_reset_filter(cmd_ops, trigger_data);
event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
- kfree(enable_data);

return ret;
}
--
2.53.0