This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: mwifiex: debugfs: Drop unnecessary error check for debugfs_create_dir() to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: wifi-mwifiex-debugfs-drop-unnecessary-error-check-fo.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 73861c4eba338bb0240cb5b5a4dbbc42865edc28 Author: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Sep 3 11:02:15 2023 +0800 wifi: mwifiex: debugfs: Drop unnecessary error check for debugfs_create_dir() [ Upstream commit 50180c7f8e3de7c2d87f619131776598fcb1478d ] debugfs_create_dir() returns ERR_PTR and never return NULL. As Russell suggested, this patch removes the error checking for debugfs_create_dir(). 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: 5e6e3a92b9a4 ("wireless: mwifiex: initial commit for Marvell mwifiex driver") Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Russell King (Oracle) <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/20230903030216.1509013-3-ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/debugfs.c index 63f232c723374..55ca5b287fe7f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/debugfs.c @@ -964,9 +964,6 @@ mwifiex_dev_debugfs_init(struct mwifiex_private *priv) priv->dfs_dev_dir = debugfs_create_dir(priv->netdev->name, mwifiex_dfs_dir); - if (!priv->dfs_dev_dir) - return; - MWIFIEX_DFS_ADD_FILE(info); MWIFIEX_DFS_ADD_FILE(debug); MWIFIEX_DFS_ADD_FILE(getlog);