From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim , Steven Rostedt Subject: [ 17/74] tracing: Do not call kmem_cache_free() on allocation failure Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:08:15 -0700 Message-Id: <20130827010428.073350135@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130827010424.535365435@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130827010424.535365435@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Namhyung Kim commit aaf6ac0f0871cb7fc0f28f3a00edf329bc7adc29 upstream. There's no point calling it when _alloc() failed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370585268-29169-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static int __trace_define_field(struct l field = kmem_cache_alloc(field_cachep, GFP_TRACE); if (!field) - goto err; + return -ENOMEM; field->name = name; field->type = type; @@ -131,11 +131,6 @@ static int __trace_define_field(struct l list_add(&field->link, head); return 0; - -err: - kmem_cache_free(field_cachep, field); - - return -ENOMEM; } int trace_define_field(struct ftrace_event_call *call, const char *type,