Remove unnecessary error handling because the only failure value that can be returned is NULL and so the test can never be true. The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows: @@ expression e; @@ e = debugfs_create_file(...); - if(IS_ERR(e)) { e = NULL; } Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/pci/pci_debug.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/s390/pci/pci_debug.c b/arch/s390/pci/pci_debug.c index 4129b0a..8a25b04 100644 --- a/arch/s390/pci/pci_debug.c +++ b/arch/s390/pci/pci_debug.c @@ -139,8 +139,6 @@ void zpci_debug_init_device(struct zpci_dev *zdev) S_IFREG | S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, zdev->debugfs_dev, zdev, &debugfs_pci_perf_fops); - if (IS_ERR(zdev->debugfs_perf)) - zdev->debugfs_perf = NULL; } void zpci_debug_exit_device(struct zpci_dev *zdev) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html