[PATCH] cxl: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jun 13 01:54:09 AEST 2019
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:51:21AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:13 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > @@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ int cxl_debugfs_adapter_add(struct cxl *adapter)
> >
> > snprintf(buf, 32, "card%i", adapter->adapter_num);
> > dir = debugfs_create_dir(buf, cxl_debugfs);
> > - if (IS_ERR(dir))
> > - return PTR_ERR(dir);
> > adapter->debugfs = dir;
> >
>
> Should the check for 'cxl_debugfs' get removed here as well?
> If that is null, we might put the subdir in the wrong place in the
> tree, but that would otherwise be harmless as well, and the
> same thing happens if 'dir' is NULL above and we add the
> files in the debugfs root later (losing the ability to clean up
> afterwards).
dir can only be NULL if no one has initialized it, debugfs_create_dir()
will never return a null value. I don't really know the ordering of the
calls here, so I'll keep this as-is for now incase someone is trying to
add a "device" before a directory is initialized.
thanks,
greg k-h
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