From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 09:29:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190122172907.GF28513@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190122172102.GE28513@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 09:21:02AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 04:21:50PM +0100, 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.
>
> What about wanting to make the debugfs all-or-nothing? That seems like
> a legitimate usage of checking the return value.
>
> E.g. KVM removes the debugfs if kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs() fails, and
> the arch/x86/kvm/debugfs.c implementation of kvm_arch_create_vcpu_debugfs()
> returns an error if any of its debugfs_create_file() calls fail.
>
> If you're adamant about removing all debugfs create return value checks,
> the aforementioned debugfs_create_file() calls should also be removed.
> And at that point kvm_create_vcpu_debugfs() should have a 'void' return
> value.
Belatedly saw the other series. It'll require a bit more coordination,
but folding this into the x86 series would allow for converting the KVM
call stack to have 'void' returns.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-22 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-22 15:21 [PATCH] kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-22 17:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-01-22 17:29 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2019-01-22 18:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-22 20:39 ` Christian Borntraeger
2019-01-22 20:48 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-01-22 23:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-01-23 8:28 ` Christian Borntraeger
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2018-05-29 16:22 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-05-29 17:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
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