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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-07-04 13:26:05 +0300
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-07-04 13:26:05 +0300
commit8658be133baa92c06b6d832a436d437deb2e2a22 (patch)
tree8f798f4aae5892533831487e4838a85b95414a0f /kernel/kcov.c
parent4030103b9b2e060512f8292bb62582adfd02ebe8 (diff)
parent5e385a6ef31fbbf2acbda770aecc2bc2ff933d17 (diff)
downloadlinux-8658be133baa92c06b6d832a436d437deb2e2a22.tar.xz
Merge branch 'irq/for-block' into irq/core
Pull the irq affinity managing code which is in a seperate branch for block developers to pull.
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;
}