[PATCH] thermal: tegra: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[PATCH] thermal: tegra: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

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: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Cc: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>
Cc: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c | 14 ++------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c b/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
index fcf70a3728b6..43941eb734eb 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c
@@ -1485,23 +1485,13 @@ DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(regs);
 static void soctherm_debug_init(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct tegra_soctherm *tegra = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
-	struct dentry *root, *file;
+	struct dentry *root;
 
 	root = debugfs_create_dir("soctherm", NULL);
-	if (!root) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to create debugfs directory\n");
-		return;
-	}
 
 	tegra->debugfs_dir = root;
 
-	file = debugfs_create_file("reg_contents", 0644, root,
-				   pdev, &regs_fops);
-	if (!file) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to create debugfs file\n");
-		debugfs_remove_recursive(tegra->debugfs_dir);
-		tegra->debugfs_dir = NULL;
-	}
+	debugfs_create_file("reg_contents", 0644, root, pdev, &regs_fops);
 }
 #else
 static inline void soctherm_debug_init(struct platform_device *pdev) {}
-- 
2.22.0

Re: [PATCH] thermal: tegra: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Thierry Reding]

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 08:37:53PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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.
> 
> Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Wei Ni <wni@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/tegra/soctherm.c | 14 ++------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

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