linux-kernel - [PATCH] perf: Remove a redundant check

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Date:	Tue,  7 Jun 2016 15:44:15 +0300
From:	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	vince@...ter.net, eranian@...gle.com,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] perf: Remove a redundant check

There is no way to end up in _free_event() with event::pmu being NULL.
The latter is initialized in event allocation path and remains set
forever. In case of allocation failure, the error path doesn't use
_free_event().

Having the check, however, suggests that it is possible to have a
event::pmu==NULL situation in _free_event() and confuses the robots.

This patch gets rid of the check.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 050a290c72..87e945d6eb 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -3862,10 +3862,8 @@ static void _free_event(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (event->ctx)
 		put_ctx(event->ctx);
 
-	if (event->pmu) {
-		exclusive_event_destroy(event);
-		module_put(event->pmu->module);
-	}
+	exclusive_event_destroy(event);
+	module_put(event->pmu->module);
 
 	call_rcu(&event->rcu_head, free_event_rcu);
 }
-- 
2.8.1