debugfs_create_file returns NULL on error so an IS_ERR test is incorrect here and a NULL check is required. The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows: @@ expression e; @@ e = debugfs_create_file(...); if( - IS_ERR(e) + !e ) { <+... return - PTR_ERR(e) + -ENOMEM ; ...+> } Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c b/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c index 5eefe32..01f1154 100644 --- a/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c +++ b/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ static int __init sc_debugfs_init(void) file = debugfs_create_file("prefetch", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, dir, NULL, &sc_prefetch_fops); - if (IS_ERR(file)) - return PTR_ERR(file); + if (!file) + return -ENOMEM; return 0; } -- 1.9.1