Re: [PATCH v26 07/13] mm/damon: Implement a debugfs-based user space interface

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 30 2021 - 05:23:53 EST


On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 09:05:31AM +0000, sj38.park@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> +static int __init __damon_dbgfs_init(void)
> +{
> + struct dentry *dbgfs_root;
> + const char * const file_names[] = {"monitor_on"};
> + const struct file_operations *fops[] = {&monitor_on_fops};
> + int i;
> +
> + dbgfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("damon", NULL);
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(file_names); i++)
> + debugfs_create_file(file_names[i], 0600, dbgfs_root, NULL,
> + fops[i]);
> + dbgfs_fill_ctx_dir(dbgfs_root, dbgfs_ctxs[0]);
> +
> + dbgfs_dirs = kmalloc_array(1, sizeof(dbgfs_root), GFP_KERNEL);

No error checking for memory allocation failures?


> + dbgfs_dirs[0] = dbgfs_root;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Functions for the initialization
> + */
> +
> +static int __init damon_dbgfs_init(void)
> +{
> + int rc;
> +
> + dbgfs_ctxs = kmalloc(sizeof(*dbgfs_ctxs), GFP_KERNEL);

No error checking?

> + dbgfs_ctxs[0] = dbgfs_new_ctx();
> + if (!dbgfs_ctxs[0])
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + dbgfs_nr_ctxs = 1;
> +
> + rc = __damon_dbgfs_init();
> + if (rc)
> + pr_err("%s: dbgfs init failed\n", __func__);

Shouldn't the error be printed out in the function that failed, not in
this one?

thanks,

greg k-h