kcov: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:29:56 +0000 (16:29 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Mar 2019 02:32:02 +0000 (18:32 -0800)
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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190122152151.16139-46-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kcov.c

index c2277db..5b0bb28 100644 (file)
@@ -444,10 +444,8 @@ static int __init kcov_init(void)
         * there is no need to protect it against removal races. The
         * use of debugfs_create_file_unsafe() is actually safe here.
         */
-       if (!debugfs_create_file_unsafe("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops)) {
-               pr_err("failed to create kcov in debugfs\n");
-               return -ENOMEM;
-       }
+       debugfs_create_file_unsafe("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops);
+
        return 0;
 }