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

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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:21:46 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kprobes: 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: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c | 25 ++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index f4ddfdd2d07e..7287e7de2350 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -2566,33 +2566,20 @@ static const struct file_operations fops_kp = {
 
 static int __init debugfs_kprobe_init(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *dir, *file;
+	struct dentry *dir;
 	unsigned int value = 1;
 
 	dir = debugfs_create_dir("kprobes", NULL);
-	if (!dir)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	file = debugfs_create_file("list", 0400, dir, NULL,
-				&debugfs_kprobes_operations);
-	if (!file)
-		goto error;
+	debugfs_create_file("list", 0400, dir, NULL,
+			    &debugfs_kprobes_operations);
 
-	file = debugfs_create_file("enabled", 0600, dir,
-					&value, &fops_kp);
-	if (!file)
-		goto error;
+	debugfs_create_file("enabled", 0600, dir, &value, &fops_kp);
 
-	file = debugfs_create_file("blacklist", 0400, dir, NULL,
-				&debugfs_kprobe_blacklist_ops);
-	if (!file)
-		goto error;
+	debugfs_create_file("blacklist", 0400, dir, NULL,
+			    &debugfs_kprobe_blacklist_ops);
 
 	return 0;
-
-error:
-	debugfs_remove(dir);
-	return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
 late_initcall(debugfs_kprobe_init);
-- 
2.20.1