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: "Ed L. Cashin" <ed.cashin@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Justin Sanders <justin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v3: Justin is now the maintainer of this driver, properly send it to him. v2: fix uninitialized entry issue found by Omar Sandoval drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c index e2c6aae2d636..bd19f8af950b 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c @@ -196,7 +196,6 @@ static const struct file_operations aoe_debugfs_fops = { static void aoedisk_add_debugfs(struct aoedev *d) { - struct dentry *entry; char *p; if (aoe_debugfs_dir == NULL) @@ -207,15 +206,8 @@ aoedisk_add_debugfs(struct aoedev *d) else p++; BUG_ON(*p == '\0'); - entry = debugfs_create_file(p, 0444, aoe_debugfs_dir, d, - &aoe_debugfs_fops); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(entry)) { - pr_info("aoe: cannot create debugfs file for %s\n", - d->gd->disk_name); - return; - } - BUG_ON(d->debugfs); - d->debugfs = entry; + d->debugfs = debugfs_create_file(p, 0444, aoe_debugfs_dir, d, + &aoe_debugfs_fops); } void aoedisk_rm_debugfs(struct aoedev *d) @@ -472,10 +464,6 @@ aoeblk_init(void) if (buf_pool_cache == NULL) return -ENOMEM; aoe_debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("aoe", NULL); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(aoe_debugfs_dir)) { - pr_info("aoe: cannot create debugfs directory\n"); - aoe_debugfs_dir = NULL; - } return 0; } -- 2.21.0