Re: [PATCH 6/6] dma: qcom: hidma: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Sinan Kaya]

On 6/12/2019 11:39 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> Interesting. Wouldn't debugfs_create_file() blow up if dir is NULL
>> for some reason?
> It will create a file in the root of debugfs.  But how will that happen?
> debugfs_create_dir() can not return NULL.

I see.

> 
>> +		debugfs_create_file("stats", S_IRUGO, dir, chan,
>> +				    &hidma_chan_fops);
>>
>> Note that code ignores the return value of hidma_debug_init();
>> It was just trying to do clean up on debugfs failure by calling
>>
>> 	debugfs_remove_recursive(dmadev->debugfs);
> Is that a problem?

I just wanted to double check. You probably want to remove the return
value on debugfs_create_file() to prevent others from doing the same
thing.

Acked-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@xxxxxxxxxx>