Since debugfs_create_file() returns ERR_PTR and never NULL, use IS_ERR() to check the return value. And so return the err code based on IS_ERR instead of checking NULL. Fixes: 52fed10ad756 ("media: aspeed: add debugfs") Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c b/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c index a9c2c69b2ed9..f4e624c13d3b 100644 --- a/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c +++ b/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c @@ -1975,10 +1975,12 @@ static int aspeed_video_debugfs_create(struct aspeed_video *video) debugfs_entry = debugfs_create_file(DEVICE_NAME, 0444, NULL, video, &aspeed_video_debugfs_fops); - if (!debugfs_entry) + if (IS_ERR(debugfs_entry)) { aspeed_video_debugfs_remove(video); + return -EIO; + } - return !debugfs_entry ? -EIO : 0; + return 0; } #else static void aspeed_video_debugfs_remove(struct aspeed_video *video) { } -- 2.34.1