linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon - still no need to check return value of debugfs

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Message-ID: <5DEF1993.8020307@hisilicon.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:05:39 +0800
From:   Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Xu Zaibo <xuzaibo@...wei.com>
CC:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: hisilicon - still no need to check return value
 of debugfs_create functions

On 2019/12/9 23:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Just like in 4a97bfc79619 ("crypto: hisilicon - no need to check return
> value of debugfs_create functions"), there still 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.

Thanks for fix this, +To Zaibo Xu who is the maintainer of this module :)

Best,
Zhou

> 
> Cc: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/hisilicon/hpre/hpre_main.c | 28 +++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/hpre/hpre_main.c b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/hpre/hpre_main.c
> index 34e0424410bf..711f5d18b641 100644
> --- a/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/hpre/hpre_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/crypto/hisilicon/hpre/hpre_main.c
> @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static const struct file_operations hpre_ctrl_debug_fops = {
>  static int hpre_create_debugfs_file(struct hpre_debug *dbg, struct dentry *dir,
>  				    enum hpre_ctrl_dbgfs_file type, int indx)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *tmp, *file_dir;
> +	struct dentry *file_dir;
>  
>  	if (dir)
>  		file_dir = dir;
> @@ -571,10 +571,8 @@ static int hpre_create_debugfs_file(struct hpre_debug *dbg, struct dentry *dir,
>  	dbg->files[indx].debug = dbg;
>  	dbg->files[indx].type = type;
>  	dbg->files[indx].index = indx;
> -	tmp = debugfs_create_file(hpre_debug_file_name[type], 0600, file_dir,
> -				  dbg->files + indx, &hpre_ctrl_debug_fops);
> -	if (!tmp)
> -		return -ENOENT;
> +	debugfs_create_file(hpre_debug_file_name[type], 0600, file_dir,
> +			    dbg->files + indx, &hpre_ctrl_debug_fops);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> @@ -585,7 +583,6 @@ static int hpre_pf_comm_regs_debugfs_init(struct hpre_debug *debug)
>  	struct hisi_qm *qm = &hpre->qm;
>  	struct device *dev = &qm->pdev->dev;
>  	struct debugfs_regset32 *regset;
> -	struct dentry *tmp;
>  
>  	regset = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*regset), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!regset)
> @@ -595,10 +592,7 @@ static int hpre_pf_comm_regs_debugfs_init(struct hpre_debug *debug)
>  	regset->nregs = ARRAY_SIZE(hpre_com_dfx_regs);
>  	regset->base = qm->io_base;
>  
> -	tmp = debugfs_create_regset32("regs", 0444,  debug->debug_root, regset);
> -	if (!tmp)
> -		return -ENOENT;
> -
> +	debugfs_create_regset32("regs", 0444,  debug->debug_root, regset);
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -609,15 +603,12 @@ static int hpre_cluster_debugfs_init(struct hpre_debug *debug)
>  	struct device *dev = &qm->pdev->dev;
>  	char buf[HPRE_DBGFS_VAL_MAX_LEN];
>  	struct debugfs_regset32 *regset;
> -	struct dentry *tmp_d, *tmp;
> +	struct dentry *tmp_d;
>  	int i, ret;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < HPRE_CLUSTERS_NUM; i++) {
>  		sprintf(buf, "cluster%d", i);
> -
>  		tmp_d = debugfs_create_dir(buf, debug->debug_root);
> -		if (!tmp_d)
> -			return -ENOENT;
>  
>  		regset = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*regset), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!regset)
> @@ -627,9 +618,7 @@ static int hpre_cluster_debugfs_init(struct hpre_debug *debug)
>  		regset->nregs = ARRAY_SIZE(hpre_cluster_dfx_regs);
>  		regset->base = qm->io_base + hpre_cluster_offsets[i];
>  
> -		tmp = debugfs_create_regset32("regs", 0444, tmp_d, regset);
> -		if (!tmp)
> -			return -ENOENT;
> +		debugfs_create_regset32("regs", 0444, tmp_d, regset);
>  		ret = hpre_create_debugfs_file(debug, tmp_d, HPRE_CLUSTER_CTRL,
>  					       i + HPRE_CLUSTER_CTRL);
>  		if (ret)
> @@ -668,9 +657,6 @@ static int hpre_debugfs_init(struct hpre *hpre)
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(dev), hpre_debugfs_root);
> -	if (!dir)
> -		return -ENOENT;
> -
>  	qm->debug.debug_root = dir;
>  
>  	ret = hisi_qm_debug_init(qm);
> @@ -1014,8 +1000,6 @@ static void hpre_register_debugfs(void)
>  		return;
>  
>  	hpre_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir(hpre_name, NULL);
> -	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(hpre_debugfs_root))
> -		hpre_debugfs_root = NULL;
>  }
>  
>  static void hpre_unregister_debugfs(void)
>