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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -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; } |