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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: dynamic_debug: no need to check return value of
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On 6/12/19 11:35 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  lib/dynamic_debug.c | 12 +++---------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/dynamic_debug.c b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> index 8a16c2d498e9..c60409138e13 100644
> --- a/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> +++ b/lib/dynamic_debug.c
> @@ -993,20 +993,14 @@ static __initdata int ddebug_init_success;
>  
>  static int __init dynamic_debug_init_debugfs(void)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *dir, *file;
> +	struct dentry *dir;
>  
>  	if (!ddebug_init_success)
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	dir = debugfs_create_dir("dynamic_debug", NULL);
> -	if (!dir)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	file = debugfs_create_file("control", 0644, dir, NULL,
> -					&ddebug_proc_fops);
> -	if (!file) {
> -		debugfs_remove(dir);
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -	}
> +	debugfs_create_file("control", 0644, dir, NULL, &ddebug_proc_fops);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> 

Looks like debugfs_create_dir() can return NULL, and in that case if its
passed to debugfs_create_file() then the 'control' file ends up in the
root of debugfs? I think its better to just not create the file then
have it in the wrong place so maybe the file creation should be guarded
by if(IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dir)).

Thanks,

-Jason