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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/8] platform: x86: dell-laptop: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:44:11PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 June 2019 14:36:04 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 12 June 2019 14:12:53 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: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
> > > > Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
> > > > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>
> > > > Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 5 ++---
> > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > > > index a561f653cf13..94a2f259031c 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> > > > @@ -2176,9 +2176,8 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
> > > > kbd_led_init(&platform_device->dev);
> > > >
> > > > dell_laptop_dir = debugfs_create_dir("dell_laptop", NULL);
> > > > - if (dell_laptop_dir != NULL)
> > > > - debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, NULL,
> > > > - &dell_debugfs_fops);
> > > > + debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, NULL,
> > > > + &dell_debugfs_fops);
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > So... debugfs_create_dir() can return NULL, right?
> >
> > Nope.
>
> Yea, now I see implementation. It does not return NULL on error, but
> rather ERR_PTR.
>
> So dell_laptop_dir is always not-NULL. And that check was wrong.
>
> You can add my
> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

Thanks!

greg k-h

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