linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Remove NULL check from current in tracing_generic_entry

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Message-ID: <20210122171653.5f53b743@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:16:53 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing: Remove NULL check from current in
 tracing_generic_entry_update().

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:12:11 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> > I can't imagine when or why `current' would return a NULL pointer. This
> > check was added in commit
> >       72829bc3d63cd ("ftrace: move enums to ftrace.h and make helper function global")
> > 
> > but it doesn't give me hint why it was needed.
> > 
> > Assume `current' never returns a NULL pointer and remove the check.  
> 
> I'm guessing this is unrelated to the patch series, and I can take this now
> separately.
> 

Unrelated, except that it changes the copy not the original :-p

OK, I can wait till v2.

-- Steve