linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] infiniband: cxgb4: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:17:53 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Steve Wise <swise@...lsio.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] infiniband: cxgb4: 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: Steve Wise <swise@...lsio.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc: linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
index c13c0ba30f63..9c10fff6dcfb 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
@@ -720,11 +720,8 @@ static const struct file_operations ep_debugfs_fops = {
 	.read    = debugfs_read,
 };
 
-static int setup_debugfs(struct c4iw_dev *devp)
+static void setup_debugfs(struct c4iw_dev *devp)
 {
-	if (!devp->debugfs_root)
-		return -1;
-
 	debugfs_create_file_size("qps", S_IWUSR, devp->debugfs_root,
 				 (void *)devp, &qp_debugfs_fops, 4096);
 
@@ -740,7 +737,6 @@ static int setup_debugfs(struct c4iw_dev *devp)
 	if (c4iw_wr_log)
 		debugfs_create_file_size("wr_log", S_IWUSR, devp->debugfs_root,
 					 (void *)devp, &wr_log_debugfs_fops, 4096);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 void c4iw_release_dev_ucontext(struct c4iw_rdev *rdev,
@@ -1553,8 +1549,6 @@ static int __init c4iw_init_module(void)
 		return err;
 
 	c4iw_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir(DRV_NAME, NULL);
-	if (!c4iw_debugfs_root)
-		pr_warn("could not create debugfs entry, continuing\n");
 
 	reg_workq = create_singlethread_workqueue("Register_iWARP_device");
 	if (!reg_workq) {
-- 
2.20.1