tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:08:37 +0000 (16:08 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 9 Sep 2018 17:55:57 +0000 (19:55 +0200)
commitcbde057aa0e7b2fcca06e7f6ba28b8d76a041ce9
treee13ccb5f022aeb27dbc043b6610a5445362cbbc9
parent4c9016757e3bf695a6716946d7fd5f0f486a475a
tracing/blktrace: Fix to allow setting same value

commit 757d9140072054528b13bbe291583d9823cde195 upstream.

Masami Hiramatsu reported:

  Current trace-enable attribute in sysfs returns an error
  if user writes the same setting value as current one,
  e.g.

    # cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    0
    # echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
    # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy

  But this is not a preferred behavior, it should ignore
  if new setting is same as current one. This fixes the
  problem as below.

    # cat /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    0
    # echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable
    # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/trace/enable

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180816103802.08678002@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cd649b8bb830d ("blktrace: remove sysfs_blk_trace_enable_show/store()")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/trace/blktrace.c