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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/4] arm: dump: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
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On 1/22/19 6:41 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: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>

> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/ptdump.h | 9 +++------
> arch/arm/mm/dump.c | 4 ++--
> arch/arm/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c | 8 ++------
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/ptdump.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/ptdump.h
> index 3ebf9718288d..0c2d3d0d4cc6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/ptdump.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/ptdump.h
> @@ -21,13 +21,10 @@ struct ptdump_info {
>
> void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct seq_file *s, struct ptdump_info *info);
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_PTDUMP_DEBUGFS
> -int ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info, const char *name);
> +void ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info, const char *name);
> #else
> -static inline int ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info,
> - const char *name)
> -{
> - return 0;
> -}
> +static inline void ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info,
> + const char *name) { }
> #endif /* CONFIG_ARM_PTDUMP_DEBUGFS */
>
> void ptdump_check_wx(void);
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
> index 084779c5c893..eb385a500ed0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/dump.c
> @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ void ptdump_check_wx(void)
> static int ptdump_init(void)
> {
> ptdump_initialize();
> - return ptdump_debugfs_register(&kernel_ptdump_info,
> - "kernel_page_tables");
> + ptdump_debugfs_register(&kernel_ptdump_info, "kernel_page_tables");
> + return 0;
> }
> __initcall(ptdump_init);
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c b/arch/arm/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c
> index be8d87be4b93..598b636615a2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c
> @@ -24,11 +24,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ptdump_fops = {
> .release = single_release,
> };
>
> -int ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info, const char *name)
> +void ptdump_debugfs_register(struct ptdump_info *info, const char *name)
> {
> - struct dentry *pe;
> -
> - pe = debugfs_create_file(name, 0400, NULL, info, &ptdump_fops);
> - return pe ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
> -
> + debugfs_create_file(name, 0400, NULL, info, &ptdump_fops);
> }
>

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