From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754712AbcKQRWr (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:22:47 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:36284 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754045AbcKQRWo (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:22:44 -0500 Message-ID: <582DE75D.5040503@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:22:37 +0000 From: Sudip Mukherjee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marek Vasut , Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Cyrille Pitchen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: nandsim: fix error check References: <1479251395-3100-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> <0ad0b3d4-bde6-57ab-6856-de771ade3c32@gmail.com> <582C1041.7040809@gmail.com> <009a3016-3fe9-bda0-feb7-7d2cc132b091@gmail.com> <582CC815.8010803@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 17 November 2016 01:21 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > On 11/16/2016 09:56 PM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 November 2016 04:56 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: >>> On 11/16/2016 08:52 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >>>> On Tuesday 15 November 2016 11:42 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: >>>>> On 11/16/2016 12:09 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: >>>>>> debugfs_create_dir() and debugfs_create_file() returns NULL on >>>>>> error or >>>>>> a pointer on success. They do not return the error value with ERR_PTR. >>>>>> So we should not check the return with IS_ERR_OR_NULL, instead we >>>>>> should just check for NULL. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee >>>>>> --- >>>>>> drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 9 +++------ >>>>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >>>>>> >>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c >>>>>> index c76287a..9b0d79a 100644 >>>>>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c >>>>>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c >>>>>> @@ -525,15 +525,13 @@ static int nandsim_debugfs_create(struct >>>>>> nandsim *dev) >>>>>> { >>>>>> struct nandsim_debug_info *dbg = &dev->dbg; >>>>>> struct dentry *dent; >>>>>> - int err; >>>>>> + int err = -ENODEV; >>>>> >>>>> Why don't you just nuke the err altogether and just return -ENODEV ? >>>> >>>> That was the first version which i made and discarded before sending. I >>>> will go and find it now. >>> >>> Why did you discard it ? >>> >> >> That is actually a stupid reason. I was confused with the print >> statement which uses err. >> >> NS_ERR("cannot create \"nandsim\" debugfs directory, err %d\n", >> err); >> > > Ah, got it, so yeah, nuke the err altogether :) v2 is already sent yesterday. Regards Sudip