Re: [PATCH -tip 5/5] tracing: simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field

[Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Wenji Huang wrote:
> Discard freeing field->type since it's not necessary and may be hazard.
> 

It's redundant, but it's safe, because if we run into this failure path,
field->type is always NULL.

> Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events.c |    4 +---
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index c2a3077..3f972ad 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -60,10 +60,8 @@ int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, const char *type,
>  	return 0;
>  
>  err:
> -	if (field) {
> +	if (field)
>  		kfree(field->name);
> -		kfree(field->type);
> -	}
>  	kfree(field);
>  
>  	return -ENOMEM;