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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kprobes: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:54:22 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:15:16AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:21:46 +0100
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
> > > Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
> > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > ---
> > > kernel/kprobes.c | 25 ++++++-------------------
> > > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> > > index f4ddfdd2d07e..7287e7de2350 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> > > @@ -2566,33 +2566,20 @@ static const struct file_operations fops_kp = {
> > >
> > > static int __init debugfs_kprobe_init(void)
> > > {
> > > - struct dentry *dir, *file;
> > > + struct dentry *dir;
> > > unsigned int value = 1;
> > >
> > > dir = debugfs_create_dir("kprobes", NULL);
> > > - if (!dir)
> > > - return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > Here, I think IS_ERR(dir) is OK for debugfs_create_file(),
> > but dir == NULL has different meaning. I think we'd better
> > keep this check. (I see, -ENOMEM will be no good...)
>
> dir == NULL means the system is out of memory. Which I'll change and
> just make it return an error, so it is fine to ignore this value.

Got it! Thanks!

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>




>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

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