linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: cleancache: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:21:11 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: cleancache: 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: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/cleancache.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/cleancache.c b/mm/cleancache.c
index 2bf12da9baa0..082fdda7aaa6 100644
--- a/mm/cleancache.c
+++ b/mm/cleancache.c
@@ -305,8 +305,7 @@ static int __init init_cleancache(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 	struct dentry *root = debugfs_create_dir("cleancache", NULL);
-	if (root == NULL)
-		return -ENXIO;
+
 	debugfs_create_u64("succ_gets", 0444, root, &cleancache_succ_gets);
 	debugfs_create_u64("failed_gets", 0444, root, &cleancache_failed_gets);
 	debugfs_create_u64("puts", 0444, root, &cleancache_puts);
-- 
2.20.1