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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-06-11 20:32:13 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-06-12 13:37:03 +0200
commit5a2338dbf97fac3a93e2ffefa5ab907ac5a9ba56 (patch)
tree46188dd9ed03210e55d271bcdda5ad1007b6e5eb /drivers/misc
parentvmw_balloon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions (diff)
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lkdtm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
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: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c13
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
index 1972dad966f5..bae3b3763f3e 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/core.c
@@ -429,22 +429,13 @@ static int __init lkdtm_module_init(void)
/* Register debugfs interface */
lkdtm_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("provoke-crash", NULL);
- if (!lkdtm_debugfs_root) {
- pr_err("creating root dir failed\n");
- return -ENODEV;
- }
/* Install debugfs trigger files. */
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(crashpoints); i++) {
struct crashpoint *cur = &crashpoints[i];
- struct dentry *de;
- de = debugfs_create_file(cur->name, 0644, lkdtm_debugfs_root,
- cur, &cur->fops);
- if (de == NULL) {
- pr_err("could not create crashpoint %s\n", cur->name);
- goto out_err;
- }
+ debugfs_create_file(cur->name, 0644, lkdtm_debugfs_root, cur,
+ &cur->fops);
}
/* Install crashpoint if one was selected. */