Re: [PATCH v2] remoteproc: Don't bother checking the return value of debugfs_create*

[Mathieu Poirier]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 09:16:16PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> DebugFS APIs are designed to return only the error pointers and not NULL
> in the case of failure. So these return pointers are safe to be passed on
> to the successive debugfs_create* APIs.
> 
> Therefore, let's just get rid of the checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
> 
> * Removed the error check of rproc_create_trace_file().
> 
>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c    |  4 ----
>  drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c | 17 ++---------------
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>

Applied.

Thanks,
Mathieu

> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> index 69f51acf235e..56c3f70723a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_core.c
> @@ -684,10 +684,6 @@ static int rproc_handle_trace(struct rproc *rproc, void *ptr,
>  
>  	/* create the debugfs entry */
>  	trace->tfile = rproc_create_trace_file(name, rproc, trace);
> -	if (!trace->tfile) {
> -		kfree(trace);
> -		return -EINVAL;
> -	}
>  
>  	list_add_tail(&trace->node, &rproc->traces);
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c
> index b5a1e3b697d9..2e2c4a31c154 100644
> --- a/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_debugfs.c
> @@ -386,16 +386,8 @@ void rproc_remove_trace_file(struct dentry *tfile)
>  struct dentry *rproc_create_trace_file(const char *name, struct rproc *rproc,
>  				       struct rproc_debug_trace *trace)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *tfile;
> -
> -	tfile = debugfs_create_file(name, 0400, rproc->dbg_dir, trace,
> +	return debugfs_create_file(name, 0400, rproc->dbg_dir, trace,
>  				    &trace_rproc_ops);
> -	if (!tfile) {
> -		dev_err(&rproc->dev, "failed to create debugfs trace entry\n");
> -		return NULL;
> -	}
> -
> -	return tfile;
>  }
>  
>  void rproc_delete_debug_dir(struct rproc *rproc)
> @@ -411,8 +403,6 @@ void rproc_create_debug_dir(struct rproc *rproc)
>  		return;
>  
>  	rproc->dbg_dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(dev), rproc_dbg);
> -	if (!rproc->dbg_dir)
> -		return;
>  
>  	debugfs_create_file("name", 0400, rproc->dbg_dir,
>  			    rproc, &rproc_name_ops);
> @@ -430,11 +420,8 @@ void rproc_create_debug_dir(struct rproc *rproc)
>  
>  void __init rproc_init_debugfs(void)
>  {
> -	if (debugfs_initialized()) {
> +	if (debugfs_initialized())
>  		rproc_dbg = debugfs_create_dir(KBUILD_MODNAME, NULL);
> -		if (!rproc_dbg)
> -			pr_err("can't create debugfs dir\n");
> -	}
>  }
>  
>  void __exit rproc_exit_debugfs(void)
> -- 
> 2.25.1
>