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

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Message-Id: <20190122152151.16139-48-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:21:47 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] power: qos: 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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc: linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/power/qos.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/qos.c b/kernel/power/qos.c
index b7a82502857a..9d22131afc1e 100644
--- a/kernel/power/qos.c
+++ b/kernel/power/qos.c
@@ -582,10 +582,8 @@ static int register_pm_qos_misc(struct pm_qos_object *qos, struct dentry *d)
 	qos->pm_qos_power_miscdev.name = qos->name;
 	qos->pm_qos_power_miscdev.fops = &pm_qos_power_fops;
 
-	if (d) {
-		(void)debugfs_create_file(qos->name, S_IRUGO, d,
-					  (void *)qos, &pm_qos_debug_fops);
-	}
+	debugfs_create_file(qos->name, S_IRUGO, d, (void *)qos,
+			    &pm_qos_debug_fops);
 
 	return misc_register(&qos->pm_qos_power_miscdev);
 }
@@ -685,8 +683,6 @@ static int __init pm_qos_power_init(void)
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(pm_qos_array) != PM_QOS_NUM_CLASSES);
 
 	d = debugfs_create_dir("pm_qos", NULL);
-	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(d))
-		d = NULL;
 
 	for (i = PM_QOS_CPU_DMA_LATENCY; i < PM_QOS_NUM_CLASSES; i++) {
 		ret = register_pm_qos_misc(pm_qos_array[i], d);
-- 
2.20.1