On Wednesday 12 June 2019 14:36:04 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:21:05PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Nope.
Yea, now I see implementation. It does not return NULL on error, but
rather ERR_PTR.
So dell_laptop_dir is always not-NULL. And that check was wrong.
You can add my
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.ro...@gmail.com>
> > And it is then OK to call
> > debugfs_create_file("rfkill", 0444, dell_laptop_dir, ...) with
> > dell_laptop_dir = NULL?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Where would be that "rfkill" file created?
>
> The root of debugfs.
>
> But, if debugfs_create_dir() return an error, and you pass that value
> into debugfs_create_file() it will happily just return an error back
> again, and move on.
>
> So it is always safe to pass the return value of one debugfs call into
> another, no need to check anything. If the system is so messed up that
> debugfs_create_dir() fails (i.e. you are out of memory), failing to
> create a debugfs file is the least of your worries :)
>
> And even then, no need to change your code logic, the functionality of
> your code should never depend on if debugfs is working properly at the
> moment or not.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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