From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754020AbcKQOaI (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:30:08 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:35191 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753435AbcKQOaE (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:30:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: nandsim: fix error check To: Sudip Mukherjee , Boris Brezillon , Richard Weinberger , David Woodhouse , Brian Norris , Cyrille Pitchen 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> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org From: Marek Vasut Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:21:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <582CC815.8010803@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 :) -- Best regards, Marek Vasut