[PATCH 4/6] powerpc: mm: ptdump: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Feb 9 21:58:59 AEDT 2020


When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
never do something different based on this.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/bats.c          | 8 +++-----
 arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/hashpagetable.c | 7 ++-----
 arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c        | 8 +++-----
 arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/segment_regs.c  | 8 +++-----
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/bats.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/bats.c
index 4154feac1da3..d3a5d6b318d1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/bats.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/bats.c
@@ -164,10 +164,8 @@ static const struct file_operations bats_fops = {
 
 static int __init bats_init(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *debugfs_file;
-
-	debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file("block_address_translation", 0400,
-					   powerpc_debugfs_root, NULL, &bats_fops);
-	return debugfs_file ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+	debugfs_create_file("block_address_translation", 0400,
+			    powerpc_debugfs_root, NULL, &bats_fops);
+	return 0;
 }
 device_initcall(bats_init);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/hashpagetable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/hashpagetable.c
index a07278027c6f..b6ed9578382f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/hashpagetable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/hashpagetable.c
@@ -527,13 +527,10 @@ static const struct file_operations ptdump_fops = {
 
 static int ptdump_init(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *debugfs_file;
-
 	if (!radix_enabled()) {
 		populate_markers();
-		debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file("kernel_hash_pagetable",
-				0400, NULL, NULL, &ptdump_fops);
-		return debugfs_file ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+		debugfs_create_file("kernel_hash_pagetable", 0400, NULL, NULL,
+				    &ptdump_fops);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
index 206156255247..d92bb8ea229c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/ptdump.c
@@ -417,12 +417,10 @@ void ptdump_check_wx(void)
 
 static int ptdump_init(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *debugfs_file;
-
 	populate_markers();
 	build_pgtable_complete_mask();
-	debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file("kernel_page_tables", 0400, NULL,
-			NULL, &ptdump_fops);
-	return debugfs_file ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+	debugfs_create_file("kernel_page_tables", 0400, NULL, NULL,
+			    &ptdump_fops);
+	return 0;
 }
 device_initcall(ptdump_init);
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/segment_regs.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/segment_regs.c
index 501843664bb9..dde2fe8de4b2 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/segment_regs.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/ptdump/segment_regs.c
@@ -55,10 +55,8 @@ static const struct file_operations sr_fops = {
 
 static int __init sr_init(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *debugfs_file;
-
-	debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file("segment_registers", 0400,
-					   powerpc_debugfs_root, NULL, &sr_fops);
-	return debugfs_file ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+	debugfs_create_file("segment_registers", 0400, powerpc_debugfs_root,
+			    NULL, &sr_fops);
+	return 0;
 }
 device_initcall(sr_init);
-- 
2.25.0



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