Re: [PATCH] selftests/ftrace: Avoid unlink error on first run

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:48:25 +0900, Jaewon Jung <jaewon8868@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the first run, ftracetest tries to unlink a symlink that does not
> exist.
> Use rm -f to avoid the "No such file or directory" error.
>
> Fixes: 7dc1e125f07a ("ftrace/selftests: Add softlink to latest log directory")
> Signed-off-by: Jaewon Jung <jaewon8868@gmail.com>

Looks good to me. 

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Shuah, will you pick this? 

Thank you,

> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> index 246d7e1d015c..95804610e079 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/ftracetest
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ else
>    mkdir -p $LOG_DIR || errexit "Failed to make a log directory: $LOG_DIR"
>    date > $LOG_FILE
>    if [ "x-$LINK_PTR" != "x-" ]; then
> -    unlink $LINK_PTR
> +    rm -f $LINK_PTR
>      ln -fs $LOG_DATE $LINK_PTR
>    fi
>  fi
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>