Fixes: d7350c3f45694 ("tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 22 +++-------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index be847d45d81c..1c370ffbe062 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c

@@ -4205,15 +4205,9 @@ static void *s_start(struct seq_file *m, loff_t *pos)
 	loff_t l = 0;
 	int cpu;
 
-	/*
-	 * copy the tracer to avoid using a global lock all around.
-	 * iter->trace is a copy of current_trace, the pointer to the
-	 * name may be used instead of a strcmp(), as iter->trace->name
-	 * will point to the same string as current_trace->name.
-	 */
 	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
-	if (unlikely(tr->current_trace && iter->trace->name != tr->current_trace->name))
-		*iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;
+	if (unlikely(tr->current_trace != iter->trace))
+		iter->trace = tr->current_trace;
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE

@@ -4862,16 +4856,8 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot)
 	iter->fmt = NULL;
 	iter->fmt_size = 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * We make a copy of the current tracer to avoid concurrent
-	 * changes on it while we are reading.
-	 */
 	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
-	iter->trace = kzalloc(sizeof(*iter->trace), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!iter->trace)
-		goto fail;
-
-	*iter->trace = *tr->current_trace;
+	iter->trace = tr->current_trace;
 
 	if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&iter->started, GFP_KERNEL))
 		goto fail;

@@ -4936,7 +4922,6 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot)
 
  fail:
 	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
-	kfree(iter->trace);
 	kfree(iter->temp);
 	kfree(iter->buffer_iter);
 release:

@@ -5021,7 +5006,6 @@ static int tracing_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	free_cpumask_var(iter->started);
 	kfree(iter->fmt);
 	kfree(iter->temp);
-	kfree(iter->trace);
 	kfree(iter->buffer_iter);
 	seq_release_private(inode, file);
 

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2.40.1