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

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Message-Id: <20190122152151.16139-49-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:21:48 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] gcov: 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.

Also delete the dentry variable as it is never needed.

Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/gcov/fs.c | 22 ++--------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/gcov/fs.c b/kernel/gcov/fs.c
index 6e40ff6be083..aa9a49f72024 100644
--- a/kernel/gcov/fs.c
+++ b/kernel/gcov/fs.c
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ struct gcov_node {
 static const char objtree[] = OBJTREE;
 static const char srctree[] = SRCTREE;
 static struct gcov_node root_node;
-static struct dentry *reset_dentry;
 static LIST_HEAD(all_head);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(node_lock);
 
@@ -387,8 +386,6 @@ static void add_links(struct gcov_node *node, struct dentry *parent)
 			goto out_err;
 		node->links[i] = debugfs_create_symlink(deskew(basename),
 							parent,	target);
-		if (!node->links[i])
-			goto out_err;
 		kfree(target);
 	}
 
@@ -450,11 +447,6 @@ static struct gcov_node *new_node(struct gcov_node *parent,
 					parent->dentry, node, &gcov_data_fops);
 	} else
 		node->dentry = debugfs_create_dir(node->name, parent->dentry);
-	if (!node->dentry) {
-		pr_warn("could not create file\n");
-		kfree(node);
-		return NULL;
-	}
 	if (info)
 		add_links(node, parent->dentry);
 	list_add(&node->list, &parent->children);
@@ -769,24 +761,14 @@ static __init int gcov_fs_init(void)
 	 * and all profiling files.
 	 */
 	root_node.dentry = debugfs_create_dir("gcov", NULL);
-	if (!root_node.dentry)
-		goto err_remove;
 	/*
 	 * Create reset file which resets all profiling counts when written
 	 * to.
 	 */
-	reset_dentry = debugfs_create_file("reset", 0600, root_node.dentry,
-					   NULL, &gcov_reset_fops);
-	if (!reset_dentry)
-		goto err_remove;
+	debugfs_create_file("reset", 0600, root_node.dentry, NULL,
+			    &gcov_reset_fops);
 	/* Replay previous events to get our fs hierarchy up-to-date. */
 	gcov_enable_events();
 	return 0;
-
-err_remove:
-	pr_err("init failed\n");
-	debugfs_remove(root_node.dentry);
-
-	return rc;
 }
 device_initcall(gcov_fs_init);
-- 
2.20.1