[PATCH] mac80211: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()

Yingsha Xu posted 1 patch 2 years, 8 months ago
net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
[PATCH] mac80211: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()
Posted by Yingsha Xu 2 years, 8 months ago
Smatch complains that:
debugfs_hw_add() warn: 'statsd' is an error pointer or valid

Debugfs checks are generally not supposed to be checked for errors
and it is not necessary here.

Just delete the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Yingsha Xu <ysxu@hust.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>
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NOTES: The issue is found by static analysis and remains untested.
---

 net/mac80211/debugfs.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
index dfb9f55e2685..207f772bd8ce 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs.c
@@ -673,10 +673,6 @@ void debugfs_hw_add(struct ieee80211_local *local)
 
 	statsd = debugfs_create_dir("statistics", phyd);
 
-	/* if the dir failed, don't put all the other things into the root! */
-	if (!statsd)
-		return;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_DEBUG_COUNTERS
 	DEBUGFS_STATS_ADD(dot11TransmittedFragmentCount);
 	DEBUGFS_STATS_ADD(dot11MulticastTransmittedFrameCount);
-- 
2.17.1
Re: [PATCH] mac80211: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()
Posted by Simon Horman 2 years, 8 months ago
On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:45:47PM +0800, Yingsha Xu wrote:
> Smatch complains that:
> debugfs_hw_add() warn: 'statsd' is an error pointer or valid
> 
> Debugfs checks are generally not supposed to be checked for errors
> and it is not necessary here.
> 
> Just delete the dead code.

Perhaps:

As per it's documentation, it's expected that most callers
should ignore errors returned by debugfs_create_dir().
So just delete the unnecessary check.

> Signed-off-by: Yingsha Xu <ysxu@hust.edu.cn>
> Reviewed-by: Dongliang Mu <dzm91@hust.edu.cn>

In any case, the change looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>