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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2009-11-26 05:35:42 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-11-26 09:29:21 +0100 |
| commit | 605bfaee9078cd0b01d83402315389839ee4bb5c (patch) | |
| tree | 35c3af269b37347b689b3b212fc99d4ae9f719e5 /arch | |
| parent | c6567f642e20bcc79abed030f44be5b0d6da2ded (diff) | |
hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests
This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint.
We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore
since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to
always return an error code in the failure case.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c index b25f8947ed7..75e0cd847bd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -657,10 +657,7 @@ restore: tsk, true); thread->ptrace_bps[i] = NULL; - if (!bp) { /* incorrect bp, or we have a bug in bp API */ - rc = -EINVAL; - break; - } + /* Incorrect bp, or we have a bug in bp API */ if (IS_ERR(bp)) { rc = PTR_ERR(bp); bp = NULL; @@ -729,9 +726,6 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(struct task_struct *tsk, int nr, tsk, bp->attr.disabled); } - - if (!bp) - return -EIO; /* * CHECKME: the previous code returned -EIO if the addr wasn't a * valid task virtual addr. The new one will return -EINVAL in this |