Re: [PATCH] s390/pci: Remove unnecessary if condition

From: Sebastian Ott
Date: Fri Jul 29 2016 - 04:39:57 EST


On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Remove unnecessary error handling because the only failure value that
> can be returned is NULL and so the test can never be true.
>
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> expression e;
> @@
>
> e = debugfs_create_file(...);
> - if(IS_ERR(e)) { e = NULL; }

Nope. For !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_file returns an ERR_PTR.

Regards,
Sebastian