The debugfs_create_dir() function never returns NULL. Normal users are not supposed to check the return value so the correct fix is just to delete this check. In the case where the debugfs_create_dir() fails, the function returns NULL. The other debugfs function check for NULL directory and handle it. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max20730.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max20730.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max20730.c index be83b98411c7..00fea16acab4 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max20730.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/max20730.c @@ -328,8 +328,6 @@ static int max20730_init_debugfs(struct i2c_client *client, return -ENOENT; max20730_dir = debugfs_create_dir(client->name, debugfs); - if (!max20730_dir) - return -ENOENT; for (i = 0; i < MAX20730_DEBUGFS_NUM_ENTRIES; ++i) psu->debugfs_entries[i] = i; -- 2.28.0