On Wednesday 12 June 2019 14:12:53 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index a561f653cf13..94a2f259031c 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -2176,9 +2176,8 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
> kbd_led_init(&platform_device->dev);
>
> dell_laptop_dir = debugfs_create_dir("dell_laptop", NULL);
> - if (dell_laptop_dir != NULL)
> - debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, NULL,
> - &dell_debugfs_fops);
> + debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, NULL,
> + &dell_debugfs_fops);
Hi!
So... debugfs_create_dir() can return NULL, right?
And it is then OK to call
debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, ...) with
dell_laptop_dir = NULL?
Where would be that "rfkill" file created?
>
> dell_laptop_register_notifier(&dell_laptop_notifier);
>
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Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
