On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:33:17 +0200
Markus Elfring <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:22:52 +0200
> 
> Use an additional label so that a bit of exception handling can be better
> reused at the end of this function implementation.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c 
> b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> index 655db2e82513..7e17dd6d5b50 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> @@ -1789,17 +1789,14 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command 
> *cmd_ops,
>       enable_data->file = event_enable_file;
>  
>       trigger_data = trigger_data_alloc(cmd_ops, cmd, param, enable_data);
> -     if (!trigger_data) {
> -             kfree(enable_data);
> -             return ret;
> -     }
> +     if (!trigger_data)
> +             goto out_free_enable_data;
>  
>       if (remove) {
>               event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data);
>               kfree(trigger_data);
> -             kfree(enable_data);
>               ret = 0;
> -             return ret;
> +             goto out_free_enable_data;
>       }
>  
>       /* Up the trigger_data count to make sure nothing frees it on failure */
> @@ -1837,6 +1834,7 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command 
> *cmd_ops,
>   out_free:
>       event_trigger_reset_filter(cmd_ops, trigger_data);
>       event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
> +out_free_enable_data:
>       kfree(enable_data);

Ug, let's not add more error labels now that we have cleanup code.

Untested, but this would be cleaner:

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c 
b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
index 655db2e82513..7da096acaf2b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
@@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command 
*cmd_ops,
                               char *glob, char *cmd, char *param_and_filter)
 {
        struct trace_event_file *event_enable_file;
-       struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data;
+       struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data __free(kfree) = NULL;
        struct event_trigger_data *trigger_data;
        struct trace_array *tr = file->tr;
        char *param, *filter;
@@ -1789,17 +1789,13 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command 
*cmd_ops,
        enable_data->file = event_enable_file;
 
        trigger_data = trigger_data_alloc(cmd_ops, cmd, param, enable_data);
-       if (!trigger_data) {
-               kfree(enable_data);
+       if (!trigger_data)
                return ret;
-       }
 
        if (remove) {
                event_trigger_unregister(cmd_ops, file, glob+1, trigger_data);
                kfree(trigger_data);
-               kfree(enable_data);
-               ret = 0;
-               return ret;
+               return 0;
        }
 
        /* Up the trigger_data count to make sure nothing frees it on failure */
@@ -1829,6 +1825,7 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command 
*cmd_ops,
                goto out_disable;
 
        event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
+       no_free_ptr(enable_free);
        return ret;
  out_disable:
        trace_event_enable_disable(event_enable_file, 0, 1);
@@ -1837,7 +1834,6 @@ int event_enable_trigger_parse(struct event_command 
*cmd_ops,
  out_free:
        event_trigger_reset_filter(cmd_ops, trigger_data);
        event_trigger_free(trigger_data);
-       kfree(enable_data);
 
        return ret;
 }

-- Steve

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