On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:57 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> I can't imagine when or why `current' would return a NULL pointer. This
> check was added in commit
> 72829bc3d63cd ("ftrace: move enums to ftrace.h and make helper function
> global")
>
> but it doesn't give me hint why it was needed.
>
> Assume `current' never returns a NULL pointer and remove the check.
I'm guessing this is unrelated to the patch series, and I can take this now
separately.
-- Steve
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
> ---
> include/linux/trace_events.h | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> index aa9123878e126..252dfcabda3c1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
> +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> @@ -152,10 +152,8 @@ static inline void tracing_generic_entry_update(struct
> trace_entry *entry,
> unsigned short type,
> unsigned int trace_ctx)
> {
> - struct task_struct *tsk = current;
> -
> entry->preempt_count = trace_ctx & 0xff;
> - entry->pid = (tsk) ? tsk->pid : 0;
> + entry->pid = current->pid;
> entry->type = type;
> entry->flags = trace_ctx >> 16;
> }
