From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 15:04:10 +0000 (+0100) Subject: virtio_console: remove pointless check for debugfs_create_dir() X-Git-Tag: v5.13-rc1~175^2~107 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fb11de92ac6e4af0b22a79b93602b175603cd30a;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git virtio_console: remove pointless check for debugfs_create_dir() It is impossible for debugfs_create_dir() to return NULL, so checking for it gives people a false sense that they actually are doing something if an error occurs. As there is no need to ever change kernel logic if debugfs is working "properly" or not, there is no need to check the return value of debugfs calls, so remove the checks here as they will never be triggered and are wrong. Cc: Amit Shah Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amit Shah Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210216150410.3844635-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 1836cc56e357b..59dfd9c421a1e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -1456,18 +1456,15 @@ static int add_port(struct ports_device *portdev, u32 id) */ send_control_msg(port, VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_READY, 1); - if (pdrvdata.debugfs_dir) { - /* - * Finally, create the debugfs file that we can use to - * inspect a port's state at any time - */ - snprintf(debugfs_name, sizeof(debugfs_name), "vport%up%u", - port->portdev->vdev->index, id); - port->debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file(debugfs_name, 0444, - pdrvdata.debugfs_dir, - port, - &port_debugfs_fops); - } + /* + * Finally, create the debugfs file that we can use to + * inspect a port's state at any time + */ + snprintf(debugfs_name, sizeof(debugfs_name), "vport%up%u", + port->portdev->vdev->index, id); + port->debugfs_file = debugfs_create_file(debugfs_name, 0444, + pdrvdata.debugfs_dir, + port, &port_debugfs_fops); return 0; free_inbufs: @@ -2244,8 +2241,6 @@ static int __init init(void) } pdrvdata.debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("virtio-ports", NULL); - if (!pdrvdata.debugfs_dir) - pr_warn("Error creating debugfs dir for virtio-ports\n"); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pdrvdata.consoles); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pdrvdata.portdevs);