[PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Do not clean up hiter in mmiotrace read function

From: Steven Rostedt

Date: Thu Sep 10 2026 - 16:26:38 EST


From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

When the mmiotrace trace was first created, it allocated a descriptor in
its pipe_open() method. Since there was no pipe_close() method when it was
created (in May of 2008, and pipe_close() was added in December of 2009),
it cleaned up the allocated descriptors in the read.

Now that the clean up is in the pipe_close() method that now exists,
remove the clean up from the read as it is no longer needed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260715143604.14481-1-gaikwad.dcg@xxxxxxxxx/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260721211143.36dbd559@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changses since v1 : https://patch.msgid.link/20260721212010.76e9ed61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

- Broke it up into two patches

kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c b/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c
index 77120d467e11..0034d6af3d9d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_mmiotrace.c
@@ -152,11 +152,6 @@ static ssize_t mmio_read(struct trace_iterator *iter, struct file *filp,
mmio_print_pcidev(s, hiter->dev);
hiter->dev = pci_get_device(PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, hiter->dev);

- if (!hiter->dev) {
- destroy_header_iter(hiter);
- iter->private = NULL;
- }
-
print_out:
ret = trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
return (ret == -EBUSY) ? 0 : ret;
--
2.53.0