[PATCH 1/7] tracing: Fix smatch warning for null glob in event_hist_trigger_parse()

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Thu Jan 27 2022 - 16:44:38 EST


The recent rename of event_hist_trigger_parse() caused smatch
re-evaluation of trace_events_hist.c and as a result an old warning
was found:

kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6174 event_hist_trigger_parse()
error: we previously assumed 'glob' could be null (see line 6166)

glob should never be null (and apparently smatch can also figure that
out and skip the warning when using the cross-function DB (but which
can't be used with a 0day build as it takes too much time to
generate)).

Nonetheless for clarity, remove the test but add a WARN_ON() in case
the code ever changes.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index cd9610688ddc..e0860146dd39 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -6164,7 +6164,9 @@ static int event_hist_trigger_parse(struct event_command *cmd_ops,

lockdep_assert_held(&event_mutex);

- if (glob && strlen(glob)) {
+ WARN_ON(!glob);
+
+ if (strlen(glob)) {
hist_err_clear();
last_cmd_set(file, param);
}
--
2.17.1