netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 13/17] mvpp2: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:44:36 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        Nathan Huckleberry <nhuck@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/17] mvpp2: no need to check return value of
 debugfs_create functions

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 12:01 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 10:55:51AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 3:17 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Maybe adding this recommendation to the comment block above the
> > definition of debugfs_create_dir() in fs/debugfs/inode.c would help
> > prevent this issue in the future?  What failure means, and how to
> > proceed can be tricky; more documentation can only help in this
> > regard.
>
> If it was there, would you have read it?  :)

Absolutely; I went looking for it, which is why I haven't added my
reviewed by tag, because it's not clear from the existing comment
block how callers should handle the return value, particularly as you
describe in this commit's commit message.

>
> I'll add it to the list for when I revamp the debugfs documentation that
> is already in the kernel, that very few people actually read...
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers