[PATCH 5.15 099/691] wifi: ath9k: Remove error checks when creating debugfs entries

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5.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit f6ffe7f0184792c2f99aca6ae5b916683973d7d3 ]

We should not be checking the return values from debugfs creation at all: the
debugfs functions are designed to handle errors of previously called functions
and just transparently abort the creation of debugfs entries when debugfs is
disabled. If we check the return value and abort driver initialisation, we break
the driver if debugfs is disabled (such as when booting with debugfs=off).

Earlier versions of ath9k accidentally did the right thing by checking the
return value, but only for NULL, not for IS_ERR(). This was "fixed" by the two
commits referenced below, breaking ath9k with debugfs=off starting from the 6.6
kernel (as reported in the Bugzilla linked below).

Restore functionality by just getting rid of the return value check entirely.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219122
Fixes: 1e4134610d93 ("wifi: ath9k: use IS_ERR() with debugfs_create_dir()")
Fixes: 6edb4ba6fb5b ("wifi: ath9k: fix parameter check in ath9k_init_debug()")
Reported-by: Daniel Tobias <dan.g.tob@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Daniel Tobias <dan.g.tob@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240805110225.19690-1-toke@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c         | 2 --
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_debug.c | 2 --
 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c
index 4badc4c453f3a..f6f63923966af 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c
@@ -1371,8 +1371,6 @@ int ath9k_init_debug(struct ath_hw *ah)
 
 	sc->debug.debugfs_phy = debugfs_create_dir("ath9k",
 						   sc->hw->wiphy->debugfsdir);
-	if (IS_ERR(sc->debug.debugfs_phy))
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG
 	debugfs_create_file("debug", 0600, sc->debug.debugfs_phy,
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_debug.c
index e79bbcd3279af..81332086e2899 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_debug.c
@@ -491,8 +491,6 @@ int ath9k_htc_init_debug(struct ath_hw *ah)
 
 	priv->debug.debugfs_phy = debugfs_create_dir(KBUILD_MODNAME,
 					     priv->hw->wiphy->debugfsdir);
-	if (IS_ERR(priv->debug.debugfs_phy))
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	ath9k_cmn_spectral_init_debug(&priv->spec_priv, priv->debug.debugfs_phy);
 
-- 
2.43.0







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