Re: [PATCH] ftrace: avoid redundant initialization in register_ftrace_direct

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Nov 10 2025 - 17:41:30 EST


On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 08:18:08PM +0800, Menglong Dong wrote:
> The FTRACE_OPS_FL_INITIALIZED flag is cleared in register_ftrace_direct,
> which can make it initialized by ftrace_ops_init() even if it is already
> initialized. It seems that there is no big deal here, but let's still fix
> it.

good catch

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

jirka


>
> Fixes: f64dd4627ec6 ("ftrace: Add multi direct register/unregister interface")
> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> index 42bd2ba68a82..efb5ce32298f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
> @@ -6043,7 +6043,7 @@ int register_ftrace_direct(struct ftrace_ops *ops, unsigned long addr)
> new_hash = NULL;
>
> ops->func = call_direct_funcs;
> - ops->flags = MULTI_FLAGS;
> + ops->flags |= MULTI_FLAGS;
> ops->trampoline = FTRACE_REGS_ADDR;
> ops->direct_call = addr;
>
> --
> 2.51.2
>
>