Smatch complains that "dentry" is never initialized. These days everyone initializes all their stack variables to zero so this means that it will trigger a warning every time this function is run. Really debugfs functions are not supposed to be checked for errors so this checking can just be deleted. Fixes: f084fe52c640 ("scsi: scsi_debug: Add debugfs interface to fail target reset") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- See my blog for more information on the history of debugfs error checking: https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2023/07/24/debugfs-functions-are-not-supposed-to-be-checked/ --- drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c index 0a4e41d84df8..c0be9a53ac79 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c @@ -1127,7 +1127,6 @@ static const struct file_operations sdebug_target_reset_fail_fops = { static int sdebug_target_alloc(struct scsi_target *starget) { struct sdebug_target_info *targetip; - struct dentry *dentry; targetip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sdebug_target_info), GFP_KERNEL); if (!targetip) @@ -1135,15 +1134,9 @@ static int sdebug_target_alloc(struct scsi_target *starget) targetip->debugfs_entry = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&starget->dev), sdebug_debugfs_root); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(targetip->debugfs_entry)) - pr_info("%s: failed to create debugfs directory for target %s\n", - __func__, dev_name(&starget->dev)); debugfs_create_file("fail_reset", 0600, targetip->debugfs_entry, starget, &sdebug_target_reset_fail_fops); - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dentry)) - pr_info("%s: failed to create fail_reset file for target %s\n", - __func__, dev_name(&starget->dev)); starget->hostdata = targetip; -- 2.42.0