linux-kernel - [PATCH] media: c8sectpfe: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Message-ID: <20191107085238.GA1285658@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Nov 2019 09:52:38 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] media: c8sectpfe: 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: Patrice Chotard <patrice.chotard@...com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 .../sti/c8sectpfe/c8sectpfe-debugfs.c         | 26 +++----------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/sti/c8sectpfe/c8sectpfe-debugfs.c b/drivers/media/platform/sti/c8sectpfe/c8sectpfe-debugfs.c
index 8f0ddcbeed9d..301fa10f419b 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/sti/c8sectpfe/c8sectpfe-debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/sti/c8sectpfe/c8sectpfe-debugfs.c
@@ -225,36 +225,16 @@ static const struct debugfs_reg32 fei_sys_regs[] = {
 
 void c8sectpfe_debugfs_init(struct c8sectpfei *fei)
 {
-	struct dentry		*root;
-	struct dentry		*file;
-
-	root = debugfs_create_dir("c8sectpfe", NULL);
-	if (!root)
-		goto err;
-
-	fei->root = root;
-
 	fei->regset =  devm_kzalloc(fei->dev, sizeof(*fei->regset), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fei->regset)
-		goto err;
+		return;
 
 	fei->regset->regs = fei_sys_regs;
 	fei->regset->nregs = ARRAY_SIZE(fei_sys_regs);
 	fei->regset->base = fei->io;
 
-	file = debugfs_create_regset32("registers", S_IRUGO, root,
-				fei->regset);
-	if (!file) {
-		dev_err(fei->dev,
-			"%s not able to create 'registers' debugfs\n"
-			, __func__);
-		goto err;
-	}
-
-	return;
-
-err:
-	debugfs_remove_recursive(root);
+	fei->root = debugfs_create_dir("c8sectpfe", NULL);
+	debugfs_create_regset32("registers", S_IRUGO, fei->root, fei->regset);
 }
 
 void c8sectpfe_debugfs_exit(struct c8sectpfei *fei)
-- 
2.23.0