linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 105/191] memory: emif: Remove bogus debugfs error handling

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Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:01:41 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 105/191] memory: emif: Remove bogus debugfs error
 handling

Hi!

> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit fd22781648080cc400772b3c68aa6b059d2d5420 ]
> 
> Callers are generally not supposed to check the return values from
> debugfs functions.  Debugfs functions never return NULL so this error
> handling will never trigger.  (Historically debugfs functions used to
> return a mix of NULL and error pointers but it was eventually deemed too
> complicated for something which wasn't intended to be used in normal
> situations).
> 
> Delete all the error handling.

This is wrong for 4.19.

Memory functions still return NULL here.

Best regards,
								Pavel
								
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