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Message-ID: <2024041905-pristine-stimuli-6894@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:14:13 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@...cle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
linux-trace-kernel <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "tracing/trigger: Fix to return error if failed
to alloc snapshot"
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 06:58:06PM +0530, Siddh Raman Pant wrote:
> This reverts commit b5085b5ac1d96ea2a8a6240f869655176ce44197.
>
> The change has an incorrect assumption about the return value because
> in the current stable trees for versions 5.15 and before, the following
> commit responsible for making 0 a success value is not present:
> b8cc44a4d3c1 ("tracing: Remove logic for registering multiple event triggers at a time")
>
> The return value should be 0 on failure in the current tree, because in
> the functions event_trigger_callback() and event_enable_trigger_func(),
> we have:
>
> ret = cmd_ops->reg(glob, trigger_ops, trigger_data, file);
> /*
> * The above returns on success the # of functions enabled,
> * but if it didn't find any functions it returns zero.
> * Consider no functions a failure too.
> */
> if (!ret) {
> ret = -ENOENT;
>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org # 5.15, 5.10, 5.4, 4.19
> Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@...cle.com>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Now queued up everywhere, thanks.
greg k-h
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