[PATCH] ARM:kernel: a bug by a redundancy charactor ';'

[Dirk Behme]

Am 16.02.2013 13:26, schrieb Will Deacon:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:38:12AM +0000, Chen Gang wrote:
>> 于 2013年02月16日 16:04, Dirk Behme 写道:
>>>
>>> Wondering against which branch this patch is, I found that this issue
>>> isn't in recent mainline from today, but in -next. Introduced by the patch
>>>
>>> ARM: perf: simplify __hw_perf_event_init err handling
>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commitdiff;h=9dcbf466559f6f2f55d60eb5a1bbebc8e694b52a
>>>
>
> Damn, I really should have spotted this. Thanks for reporting/fixing it.
>
>>> While the subject/commit message could be improved (at least mentioning
>>> 'perf' somehow and charactor -> character), the change itself looks good.
>>
>>    if still suggest to commit current patch:
>>      does the subject like this ?
>>       [PATCH] ARM:kernel: a bug for perf by a redundancy character ';'
>
> If you're ok with the following patch, I'll take it into the ARM perf
> tree.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
>
> --->8
>
>>From 21fa771c94c4359807bb92dc8532b25c323ac543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chen Gang <gang.chen at asianux.com>
> Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:49:49 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] ARM: perf: remove erroneous semicolon from event
>   initialisation
>
> Commit 9dcbf466559f ("ARM: perf: simplify __hw_perf_event_init err
> handling") tidied up the error handling code for perf event
> initialisation on ARM, but a copy-and-paste error left a dangling
> semicolon at the end of an if statement.
>
> This patch removes the broken semicolon, restoring the old group
> validation semantics.
>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen at asianux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Acked-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at gmail.com>

Dirk

> ---
>   arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> index 31e0eb3..a892067 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/perf_event.c
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ __hw_perf_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
>   	}
>
>   	if (event->group_leader != event) {
> -		if (validate_group(event) != 0);
> +		if (validate_group(event) != 0)
>   			return -EINVAL;
>   	}
>
>