On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:33:57PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > Back in ff9fb72bc07705c (debugfs: return error values, not NULL) the > debugfs APIs were changed to return error pointers rather than NULL > pointers on error, breaking the error checking in ASoC. Update the > code to use IS_ERR() and log the codes that are returned as part of > the error messages. > > Fixes: ff9fb72bc07705c (debugfs: return error values, not NULL) > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 18 ++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c > index 6b44b4a78b8e..f013b24c050a 100644 > --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c > +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c > @@ -2156,23 +2156,25 @@ void snd_soc_dapm_debugfs_init(struct snd_soc_dapm_context *dapm, > { > struct dentry *d; > > - if (!parent) > + if (!parent || IS_ERR(parent)) > return; How can parent be NULL? > > dapm->debugfs_dapm = debugfs_create_dir("dapm", parent); > > - if (!dapm->debugfs_dapm) { > + if (IS_ERR(dapm->debugfs_dapm)) { > dev_warn(dapm->dev, > - "ASoC: Failed to create DAPM debugfs directory\n"); > + "ASoC: Failed to create DAPM debugfs directory %ld\n", > + PTR_ERR(dapm->debugfs_dapm)); Same comment as before, no need to print anything. > return; > } > > d = debugfs_create_file("bias_level", 0444, > dapm->debugfs_dapm, dapm, > &dapm_bias_fops); > - if (!d) > + if (IS_ERR(d)) > dev_warn(dapm->dev, > - "ASoC: Failed to create bias level debugfs file\n"); > + "ASoC: Failed to create bias level debugfs file: %ld\n", > + PTR_ERR(d)); Again, no need to warn, no one will see it :) I am trying to make it so that debugfs doesn't return anything for when a file is created. Now if that will ever be possible or not, I don't know, but I am pretty close in one of the branches in my driver-core tree... thanks, greg k-h