linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/6] trace syscalls: Remove redundant syscall

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Message-Id: <1291696151-4336-3-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue,  7 Dec 2010 15:29:07 +1100
From:	"Ian Munsie" <imunsie@....ibm.com>
To:	Avantika Mathur <mathur@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>, Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] trace syscalls: Remove redundant syscall_nr checks

From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>

With the ftrace events now checking if the syscall_nr is valid upon
initialisation, there is no need to verify it when registering and
unregistering the events, so remove the check.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c |    9 +--------
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 14f4c02..5e34b49 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -367,8 +367,6 @@ int reg_event_syscall_enter(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
 	int num;
 
 	num = ((struct syscall_metadata *)call->data)->syscall_nr;
-	if (num < 0 || num >= NR_syscalls)
-		return -ENOSYS;
 	mutex_lock(&syscall_trace_lock);
 	if (!sys_refcount_enter)
 		ret = register_trace_sys_enter(ftrace_syscall_enter, NULL);
@@ -385,8 +383,6 @@ void unreg_event_syscall_enter(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
 	int num;
 
 	num = ((struct syscall_metadata *)call->data)->syscall_nr;
-	if (num < 0 || num >= NR_syscalls)
-		return;
 	mutex_lock(&syscall_trace_lock);
 	sys_refcount_enter--;
 	clear_bit(num, enabled_enter_syscalls);
@@ -401,8 +397,7 @@ int reg_event_syscall_exit(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
 	int num;
 
 	num = ((struct syscall_metadata *)call->data)->syscall_nr;
-	if (num < 0 || num >= NR_syscalls)
-		return -ENOSYS;
+
 	mutex_lock(&syscall_trace_lock);
 	if (!sys_refcount_exit)
 		ret = register_trace_sys_exit(ftrace_syscall_exit, NULL);
@@ -419,8 +414,6 @@ void unreg_event_syscall_exit(struct ftrace_event_call *call)
 	int num;
 
 	num = ((struct syscall_metadata *)call->data)->syscall_nr;
-	if (num < 0 || num >= NR_syscalls)
-		return;
 	mutex_lock(&syscall_trace_lock);
 	sys_refcount_exit--;
 	clear_bit(num, enabled_exit_syscalls);
-- 
1.7.2.3

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