On Wednesday 12 June 2019 14:12:53 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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: Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org>
> Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.ro...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Darren Hart <dvh...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <a...@infradead.org>
> Cc: platform-driver-...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c 
> b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index a561f653cf13..94a2f259031c 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -2176,9 +2176,8 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
>       kbd_led_init(&platform_device->dev);
>  
>       dell_laptop_dir = debugfs_create_dir("dell_laptop", NULL);
> -     if (dell_laptop_dir != NULL)
> -             debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, NULL,
> -                                 &dell_debugfs_fops);
> +     debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, NULL,
> +                         &dell_debugfs_fops);

Hi!

So... debugfs_create_dir() can return NULL, right?

And it is then OK to call
debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, ...) with
dell_laptop_dir = NULL?

Where would be that "rfkill" file created?

>  
>       dell_laptop_register_notifier(&dell_laptop_notifier);
>  

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.ro...@gmail.com

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