Merge ath-next from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git

[cascardo/linux.git] / kernel / kcov.c

diff --git a/kernel/kcov.c b/kernel/kcov.c
index a02f2dd..8d44b3f 100644 (file)
--- 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;
        }