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

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:21:09 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] zsmalloc: 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: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/zsmalloc.c | 22 ++++------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/zsmalloc.c b/mm/zsmalloc.c
index 0787d33b80d8..1347d7922ea2 100644
--- a/mm/zsmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/zsmalloc.c
@@ -575,8 +575,6 @@ static void __init zs_stat_init(void)
 	}
 
 	zs_stat_root = debugfs_create_dir("zsmalloc", NULL);
-	if (!zs_stat_root)
-		pr_warn("debugfs 'zsmalloc' stat dir creation failed\n");
 }
 
 static void __exit zs_stat_exit(void)
@@ -654,22 +652,10 @@ static void zs_pool_stat_create(struct zs_pool *pool, const char *name)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	entry = debugfs_create_dir(name, zs_stat_root);
-	if (!entry) {
-		pr_warn("debugfs dir <%s> creation failed\n", name);
-		return;
-	}
-	pool->stat_dentry = entry;
-
-	entry = debugfs_create_file("classes", S_IFREG | 0444,
-				    pool->stat_dentry, pool,
-				    &zs_stats_size_fops);
-	if (!entry) {
-		pr_warn("%s: debugfs file entry <%s> creation failed\n",
-				name, "classes");
-		debugfs_remove_recursive(pool->stat_dentry);
-		pool->stat_dentry = NULL;
-	}
+	pool->stat_dentry = debugfs_create_dir(name, zs_stat_root);
+
+	debugfs_create_file("classes", S_IFREG | 0444, pool->stat_dentry, pool,
+			    &zs_stats_size_fops);
 }
 
 static void zs_pool_stat_destroy(struct zs_pool *pool)
-- 
2.20.1