Commit-ID: 85c617abc786d7da9e95c0b4174159864dd3f85c Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/85c617abc786d7da9e95c0b4174159864dd3f85c Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 22 May 2017 12:03:49 +0300 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> CommitDate: Tue, 23 May 2017 09:50:05 +0200
perf/core: Remove some dead code perf_init_event() can't return NULL. If it did, the error handling is incomplete and we would crash. I have removed this confusing dead code. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.wea...@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170522090348.5g7yyld5en3yeky4@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> --- 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 6e75a5c..0028efa 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9172,7 +9172,7 @@ static int perf_try_init_event(struct pmu *pmu, struct perf_event *event) static struct pmu *perf_init_event(struct perf_event *event) { - struct pmu *pmu = NULL; + struct pmu *pmu; int idx; int ret; @@ -9456,9 +9456,7 @@ perf_event_alloc(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu, } pmu = perf_init_event(event); - if (!pmu) - goto err_ns; - else if (IS_ERR(pmu)) { + if (IS_ERR(pmu)) { err = PTR_ERR(pmu); goto err_ns; }
