Both debugfs_create_dir() and debugfs_create_file() return ERR_PTR and never return NULL. As Hans suggested, this patch removes the error checking for both debugfs_create_dir() and debugfs_create_file() in smsdvb_debugfs_create(). This is because the DebugFS kernel API is developed in a way that the caller can safely ignore the errors that occur during the creation of DebugFS nodes. The debugfs APIs have a IS_ERR() judge in start_creating() which can handle it gracefully. So these checks are unnecessary. And as Hans pointed out, it's much better to first allocate debug_data before calling debugfs_create_dir, which need not to clean anything up in that case. Fixes: 503efe5cfc9f ("[media] siano: split debugfs code into a separate file") Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - Remove the err check instead of using IS_ERR to replace NULL check. - Allocate debug_data before calling debugfs_create_dir(). - Update the commit message and title. - Add suggested-by. --- drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-debugfs.c | 22 ++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-debugfs.c b/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-debugfs.c index e0beefd80d7b..73990e469df9 100644 --- a/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/media/common/siano/smsdvb-debugfs.c @@ -353,31 +353,21 @@ static const struct file_operations debugfs_stats_ops = { int smsdvb_debugfs_create(struct smsdvb_client_t *client) { struct smscore_device_t *coredev = client->coredev; - struct dentry *d; struct smsdvb_debugfs *debug_data; if (!smsdvb_debugfs_usb_root || !coredev->is_usb_device) return -ENODEV; - client->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(coredev->devpath, - smsdvb_debugfs_usb_root); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(client->debugfs)) { - pr_info("Unable to create debugfs %s directory.\n", - coredev->devpath); - return -ENODEV; - } - - d = debugfs_create_file("stats", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, client->debugfs, - client, &debugfs_stats_ops); - if (!d) { - debugfs_remove(client->debugfs); - return -ENOMEM; - } - debug_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*client->debug_data), GFP_KERNEL); if (!debug_data) return -ENOMEM; + client->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(coredev->devpath, + smsdvb_debugfs_usb_root); + + debugfs_create_file("stats", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, client->debugfs, + client, &debugfs_stats_ops); + client->debug_data = debug_data; client->prt_dvb_stats = smsdvb_print_dvb_stats; client->prt_isdb_stats = smsdvb_print_isdb_stats; -- 2.34.1