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mm: cleancache: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

Message ID 20190122152151.16139-12-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series mm: cleancache: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions | expand

Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman Jan. 22, 2019, 3:21 p.m. UTC
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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/cleancache.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Jan. 23, 2019, 2:25 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 04:21:11PM +0100, 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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

OK.

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

or I can push it through my tree but it may be just easier for Andrew
too do it
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  mm/cleancache.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/cleancache.c b/mm/cleancache.c
> index 2bf12da9baa0..082fdda7aaa6 100644
> --- a/mm/cleancache.c
> +++ b/mm/cleancache.c
> @@ -305,8 +305,7 @@ static int __init init_cleancache(void)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
>  	struct dentry *root = debugfs_create_dir("cleancache", NULL);
> -	if (root == NULL)
> -		return -ENXIO;
> +
>  	debugfs_create_u64("succ_gets", 0444, root, &cleancache_succ_gets);
>  	debugfs_create_u64("failed_gets", 0444, root, &cleancache_failed_gets);
>  	debugfs_create_u64("puts", 0444, root, &cleancache_puts);
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>
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diff --git a/mm/cleancache.c b/mm/cleancache.c
index 2bf12da9baa0..082fdda7aaa6 100644
--- a/mm/cleancache.c
+++ b/mm/cleancache.c
@@ -305,8 +305,7 @@  static int __init init_cleancache(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 	struct dentry *root = debugfs_create_dir("cleancache", NULL);
-	if (root == NULL)
-		return -ENXIO;
+
 	debugfs_create_u64("succ_gets", 0444, root, &cleancache_succ_gets);
 	debugfs_create_u64("failed_gets", 0444, root, &cleancache_failed_gets);
 	debugfs_create_u64("puts", 0444, root, &cleancache_puts);