When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should never do something different based on this. Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/core.c | 17 ++++++----------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/core.c b/net/wireless/core.c index 037816163e70..339b0ccb3241 100644 --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -142,12 +142,10 @@ int cfg80211_dev_rename(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev, if (result) return result; - if (rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir && - !debugfs_rename(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent, - rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir, - rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent, - newname)) - pr_err("failed to rename debugfs dir to %s!\n", newname); + if (rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir) + debugfs_rename(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent, + rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir, + rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir->d_parent, newname); nl80211_notify_wiphy(rdev, NL80211_CMD_NEW_WIPHY); @@ -886,11 +884,8 @@ int wiphy_register(struct wiphy *wiphy) cfg80211_rdev_list_generation++; /* add to debugfs */ - rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir = - debugfs_create_dir(wiphy_name(&rdev->wiphy), - ieee80211_debugfs_dir); - if (IS_ERR(rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir)) - rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir = NULL; + rdev->wiphy.debugfsdir = debugfs_create_dir(wiphy_name(&rdev->wiphy), + ieee80211_debugfs_dir); cfg80211_debugfs_rdev_add(rdev); nl80211_notify_wiphy(rdev, NL80211_CMD_NEW_WIPHY); -- 2.22.0