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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-06-30 05:03:36 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-06-30 05:03:36 -0400
commitee58b57100ca953da7320c285315a95db2f7053d (patch)
tree77b815a31240adc4d6326346908137fc6c2c3a96 /kernel/kcov.c
parent6f30e8b022c8e3a722928ddb1a2ae0be852fcc0e (diff)
parente7bdea7750eb2a64aea4a08fa5c0a31719c8155d (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Several cases of overlapping changes, except the packet scheduler conflicts which deal with the addition of the free list parameter to qdisc_enqueue(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kcov.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kcov.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
index a02f2dddd1d7..8d44b3fea9d0 100644
--- a/kernel/kcov.c
+++ b/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -264,7 +264,12 @@ static const struct file_operations kcov_fops = {
static int __init kcov_init(void)
{
- if (!debugfs_create_file("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops)) {
+ /*
+ * The kcov debugfs file won't ever get removed and thus,
+ * there is no need to protect it against removal races. The
+ * use of debugfs_create_file_unsafe() is actually safe here.
+ */
+ if (!debugfs_create_file_unsafe("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops)) {
pr_err("failed to create kcov in debugfs\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}