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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-06-27 11:20:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-06-27 11:20:46 +0200 |
| commit | 8114e90ea4deafc7c75c7b343225b485c21b6706 (patch) | |
| tree | 046c9cd4967e2ea56eab9dcaf6ca6f601fa3deda /kernel/kcov.c | |
| parent | 9840b1ae45876bcca41b64007ac4a56a7cd14c73 (diff) | |
| parent | 4c2e07c6a29e0129e975727b9f57eede813eea85 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v4.7-rc5' into perf/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kcov.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kcov.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c index a02f2dddd1d7..8d44b3fea9d0 100644 --- a/kernel/kcov.c +++ b/kernel/kcov.c @@ -264,7 +264,12 @@ static const struct file_operations kcov_fops = { static int __init kcov_init(void) { - if (!debugfs_create_file("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops)) { + /* + * The kcov debugfs file won't ever get removed and thus, + * there is no need to protect it against removal races. The + * use of debugfs_create_file_unsafe() is actually safe here. + */ + if (!debugfs_create_file_unsafe("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops)) { pr_err("failed to create kcov in debugfs\n"); return -ENOMEM; } |