linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/6] x86: xen: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:35:42 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] x86: xen: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

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: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: <x86@...nel.org>
Cc: <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/xen/debugfs.c | 7 +------
 arch/x86/xen/p2m.c     | 3 ---
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/debugfs.c b/arch/x86/xen/debugfs.c
index 13da87918b4f..532410998684 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/debugfs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/debugfs.c
@@ -9,13 +9,8 @@ static struct dentry *d_xen_debug;
 
 struct dentry * __init xen_init_debugfs(void)
 {
-	if (!d_xen_debug) {
+	if (!d_xen_debug)
 		d_xen_debug = debugfs_create_dir("xen", NULL);
-
-		if (!d_xen_debug)
-			pr_warning("Could not create 'xen' debugfs directory\n");
-	}
-
 	return d_xen_debug;
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
index 055e37e43541..9d3e29805b73 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/p2m.c
@@ -810,9 +810,6 @@ static int __init xen_p2m_debugfs(void)
 {
 	struct dentry *d_xen = xen_init_debugfs();
 
-	if (d_xen == NULL)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	d_mmu_debug = debugfs_create_dir("mmu", d_xen);
 
 	debugfs_create_file("p2m", 0600, d_mmu_debug, NULL, &p2m_dump_fops);
-- 
2.20.1