Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/tegra-smmu: Drop unnecessary error check for for debugfs_create_dir()

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On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 03:30:56PM +0800, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> The debugfs_create_dir() function returns error pointers.
> It never returns NULL.
> 
> As Baolu suggested, this patch removes the error checking for
> debugfs_create_dir in tegra-smmu.c. 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.
> 
> Fixes: d1313e7896e9 ("iommu/tegra-smmu: Add debugfs support")
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
> - Remove the err check instead of using IS_ERR to replace NULL check.
> - Update the commit message and title.
> ---
>  drivers/iommu/tegra-smmu.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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