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SubjectRe: [PATCH] zswap: ignore debugfs_create_dir() return value
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:33 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:23 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
> > > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > ---
> > > mm/zswap.c | 2 --
> > > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c
> > > index a4e4d36ec085..f583d08f6e24 100644
> > > --- a/mm/zswap.c
> > > +++ b/mm/zswap.c
> > > @@ -1262,8 +1262,6 @@ static int __init zswap_debugfs_init(void)
> > > return -ENODEV;
> > >
> > > zswap_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("zswap", NULL);
> > > - if (!zswap_debugfs_root)
> > > - return -ENOMEM;
> > >
> > > debugfs_create_u64("pool_limit_hit", 0444,
> > > zswap_debugfs_root, &zswap_pool_limit_hit);
> >
> > wait, so if i'm reading the code right, in the case where
> > debugfs_create_dir() returns NULL, that will then be passed along to
> > debugfs_create_u64() as its parent directory - and the debugfs nodes
> > will then get created in the root debugfs directory. That's not what
> > we want to happen...
>
> True, but that is such a rare thing to ever happen (hint, you have to be
> out of memory), that it's not really a bad thing. But, you are not the
> first to mention this, which is why this patch is on its way to Linus
> for 5.0-final:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190123102814.GB17123@kroah.com/

Ah! Great, in that case then definitely

Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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