On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 16:04 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> It is impossible for debugfs_create_dir() to return NULL, so checking
> for it gives people a false sense that they actually are doing something
> if an error occurs. As there is no need to ever change kernel logic if
> debugfs is working "properly" or not, there is no need to check the
> return value of debugfs calls, so remove the checks here as they will
> never be triggered and are wrong.
>
> Cc: Amit Shah <a...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
> Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 23 +++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 1836cc56e357..59dfd9c421a1 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -1456,18 +1456,15 @@ static int add_port(struct ports_device *portdev, u32
> id)
> */
> send_control_msg(port, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_READY, 1);
>
> - if (pdrvdata.debugfs_dir) {
> - /*
> - * Finally, create the debugfs file that we can use to
> - * inspect a port's state at any time
> - */
> - snprintf(debugfs_name, sizeof(debugfs_name), "vport%up%u",
> - port->portdev->vdev->index, id);
> - port->debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file(debugfs_name, 0444,
> - pdrvdata.debugfs_dir,
> - port,
> - &port_debugfs_fops);
> - }
> + /*
> + * Finally, create the debugfs file that we can use to
> + * inspect a port's state at any time
> + */
> + snprintf(debugfs_name, sizeof(debugfs_name), "vport%up%u",
> + port->portdev->vdev->index, id);
> + port->debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file(debugfs_name, 0444,
> + pdrvdata.debugfs_dir,
> + port, &port_debugfs_fops);
> return 0;
>
> free_inbufs:
> @@ -2244,8 +2241,6 @@ static int __init init(void)
> }
>
> pdrvdata.debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("virtio-ports", NULL);
> - if (!pdrvdata.debugfs_dir)
> - pr_warn("Error creating debugfs dir for virtio-ports\n");
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pdrvdata.consoles);
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pdrvdata.portdevs);
>
Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <a...@kernel.org>
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