linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390/pci: Remove unnecessary if condition

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Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:39:41 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@...il.com>
cc:	gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/pci: Remove unnecessary if condition

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> Remove unnecessary error handling because the only failure value that
> can be returned is NULL and so the test can never be true.
> 
> The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows:
> @@
> expression e;
> @@
> 
>   e = debugfs_create_file(...);
> - if(IS_ERR(e)) { e = NULL; }

Nope. For !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_file returns an ERR_PTR.

Regards,
Sebastian