From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: nandsim: fix error check
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:21:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8f709f5-ab56-b85b-198a-f5ae36f0442b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <582CC815.8010803@gmail.com>
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 <sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 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 :)
--
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-17 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-15 23:09 [PATCH] mtd: nand: nandsim: fix error check Sudip Mukherjee
2016-11-15 23:42 ` Marek Vasut
2016-11-16 7:52 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2016-11-16 16:56 ` Marek Vasut
2016-11-16 20:56 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2016-11-17 13:21 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2016-11-17 17:22 ` Sudip Mukherjee
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