Re: [PATCH] tracing/histograms: Simplify create_hist_fields()

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jun 30 2022 - 02:33:32 EST


On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 09:31:52AM +0800, Zheng Yejian wrote:
> When I look into implements of create_hist_fields(), I think there can be
> following two simplifications:
> 1. If something wrong happened in parse_var_defs(), free_var_defs() would
> have been called in it, so no need goto free again after calling it;
> 2. After calling create_key_fields(), regardless of the value of 'ret', it
> then always runs into 'out: ', so the judge of 'ret' is redundant.
>
> No functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> index 2784951e0fc8..832c4ccf41ab 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> @@ -4454,7 +4454,7 @@ static int create_hist_fields(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
>
> ret = parse_var_defs(hist_data);
> if (ret)
> - goto out;
> + return ret;
>
> ret = create_val_fields(hist_data, file);
> if (ret)
> @@ -4465,8 +4465,7 @@ static int create_hist_fields(struct hist_trigger_data *hist_data,
> goto out;
>
> ret = create_key_fields(hist_data, file);
> - if (ret)
> - goto out;
> +
> out:
> free_var_defs(hist_data);
>
> --
> 2.32.0
>

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