Re: [PATCH] mtd: nand: nandsim: fix error check

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Wed Nov 16 2016 - 02:53:22 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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.

Regards
Sudip