[PATCH] malidp: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jun 13 13:28:29 UTC 2019


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: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau at arm.com>
Cc: Brian Starkey <brian.starkey at arm.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
index 21725c9b9f5e..7d732423d70d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/malidp_drv.c
@@ -542,19 +542,12 @@ static const struct file_operations malidp_debugfs_fops = {
 static int malidp_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
 {
 	struct malidp_drm *malidp = minor->dev->dev_private;
-	struct dentry *dentry = NULL;
 
 	malidp_error_stats_init(&malidp->de_errors);
 	malidp_error_stats_init(&malidp->se_errors);
 	spin_lock_init(&malidp->errors_lock);
-	dentry = debugfs_create_file("debug",
-				     S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
-				     minor->debugfs_root, minor->dev,
-				     &malidp_debugfs_fops);
-	if (!dentry) {
-		DRM_ERROR("Cannot create debug file\n");
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	debugfs_create_file("debug", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, minor->debugfs_root,
+			    minor->dev, &malidp_debugfs_fops);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.22.0



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