linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] [BUGFIX] tracing: Return 0 if event_enable

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Date:	Thu, 09 May 2013 11:11:46 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] [BUGFIX] tracing: Return 0 if event_enable_func
 succeeded

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 10:31 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> > index 53582e9..44ac836 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> > @@ -2061,8 +2061,11 @@ event_enable_func(struct ftrace_hash *hash,
> >  	if (ret < 0)
> >  		goto out_put;
> >  	ret = register_ftrace_function_probe(glob, ops, data);
> > -	if (!ret)
> > +	if (!ret) {
> > +		ret = -ENOENT;
> >  		goto out_disable;
> > +	} else
> > +		ret = 0;
> 
> I think you meant:
> 
> 	if (ret < 0)
> 		goto out_disable;
> 	ret = 0;
> 
> Otherwise, I don't see how you fixed anything, as you still return error
> if ret is something other than zero.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

Yeah, this needs a comment.  register_ftrace_function_probe() returns
the number of functions enabled, but if that is zero (or less), then it
should fail. We still need to check for less than ret.

I'll fix this one up.

Thanks!

-- Steve


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