hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requests

This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint.
We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore
since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to
always return an error code in the failure case.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

@@ -657,10 +657,7 @@ restore:
 					       tsk, true);
 		thread->ptrace_bps[i] = NULL;
 
-		if (!bp) { /* incorrect bp, or we have a bug in bp API */
-			rc = -EINVAL;
-			break;
-		}
+		/* Incorrect bp, or we have a bug in bp API */
 		if (IS_ERR(bp)) {
 			rc = PTR_ERR(bp);
 			bp = NULL;
@@ -729,9 +726,6 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(struct task_struct *tsk, int nr,
 					       tsk,
 					       bp->attr.disabled);
 	}
-
-	if (!bp)
-		return -EIO;
 	/*
 	 * CHECKME: the previous code returned -EIO if the addr wasn't a
 	 * valid task virtual addr. The new one will return -EINVAL in this

kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ register_wide_hw_breakpoint(unsigned long addr,
 
 		*pevent = bp;
 
-		if (IS_ERR(bp) || !bp) {
+		if (IS_ERR(bp)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(bp);
 			goto fail;
 		}
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ register_wide_hw_breakpoint(unsigned long addr,
 fail:
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
 		pevent = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_events, cpu);
-		if (IS_ERR(*pevent) || !*pevent)
+		if (IS_ERR(*pevent))
 			break;
 		unregister_hw_breakpoint(*pevent);
 	}

kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c

@@ -200,12 +200,9 @@ int process_new_ksym_entry(char *ksymname, int op, unsigned long addr)
 	entry->ksym_hbp = register_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_addr,
 					entry->len, entry->type,
 					ksym_hbp_handler, true);
+
 	if (IS_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp)) {
-		entry->ksym_hbp = NULL;
 		ret = PTR_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp);
-	}
-
-	if (!entry->ksym_hbp) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "ksym_tracer request failed. Try again"
 					" later!!\n");
 		goto err;
@@ -332,21 +329,16 @@ static ssize_t ksym_trace_filter_write(struct file *file,
 	if (changed) {
 		unregister_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_hbp);
 		entry->type = op;
+		ret = 0;
 		if (op > 0) {
 			entry->ksym_hbp =
 				register_wide_hw_breakpoint(entry->ksym_addr,
 					entry->len, entry->type,
 					ksym_hbp_handler, true);
 			if (IS_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp))
-				entry->ksym_hbp = NULL;
-
-			/* modified without problem */
-			if (entry->ksym_hbp) {
-				ret = 0;
+				ret = PTR_ERR(entry->ksym_hbp);
+			else
 				goto out;
-			}
-		} else {
-			ret = 0;
 		}
 		/* Error or "symbol:---" case: drop it */
 		ksym_filter_entry_count--;

samples/hw_breakpoint/data_breakpoint.c

@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ static int __init hw_break_module_init(void)
 	if (IS_ERR(sample_hbp)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(sample_hbp);
 		goto fail;
-	} else if (!sample_hbp) {
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-		goto fail;
 	}
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "HW Breakpoint for %s write installed\n", ksym_name);