On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 02:29:17PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 01:12:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > While looking at a patch that introduced a compile-time warning
> > "‘pmc_core_dev_state_get’ defined but not used" (I sent a patch
> > for debugfs to fix it), I noticed that the same patch caused
> > it in intel_pmc_core also introduced a bogus run-time warning:
> > "PMC Core: debugfs register failed".
> >
> > The problem is the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() check that as usual gets
> > things wrong: when CONFIG_DEBUGFS_FS is disabled,
> > debugfs_create_dir() fails with an error code, and we don't
> > need to warn about it, unlike the case in which it returns
> > NULL.
> >
> > This reverts the driver to the previous state of not warning
> > about CONFIG_DEBUGFS_FS being disabled. I chose not to
> > restore the driver to making a runtime error in debugfs
> > fatal in pmc_core_probe().
> >
> > Fixes: df2294fb6428 ("intel_pmc_core: Convert to DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> > ---
> > drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > index 520b58a04daa..e8b1b836ca2d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel_pmc_core.c
> > @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int pmc_core_dbgfs_register(struct pmc_dev
> > *pmcdev)
> > struct dentry *dir, *file;
> >
> > dir = debugfs_create_dir("pmc_core", NULL);
> > - if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dir))
> > + if (!dir)
> > return -ENOMEM;
>
> Hah, no, you shouldn't ever care about any return value being "wrong"
> from debugfs, the code should just continue on as normal.
>
> And yes, you are correct, the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() is totally wrong.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
Thanks Arnd and Greg, appreciate the catch and the fix.
Applied.
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
