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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/11] devm-helpers: Add resource managed version of debugfs directory create function
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:05:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <486947a7-98fc-4884-a5fd-354677fa66ce@moroto.mountain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7c64a5a-2abc-4b7e-95db-7ca57b5427c0@wanadoo.fr>

On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 10:10:40PM +0100, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> >   static int pvt_ts_dbgfs_create(struct pvt_device *pvt, struct device *dev)
> >   {
> > -	pvt->dbgfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(dev), NULL);
> > +	pvt->dbgfs_dir = devm_debugfs_create_dir(dev, dev_name(dev), NULL);
> > +	if (IS_ERR(pvt->dbgfs_dir))
> > +		return PTR_ERR(pvt->dbgfs_dir);
> 
> Not sure if the test and error handling should be added here.

Yep.  debugfs_create_dir() is not supposed to be checked here.  It
breaks the driver if CONFIG_DEBUGFS is disabled.  I have written a blog
about this:

https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2023/07/24/debugfs-functions-are-not-supposed-to-be-checked/

regards,
dan carpenter


      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-25 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-23 16:43 [PATCH v5 00/11] Turris Omnia MCU driver Marek Behún
2024-03-23 16:43 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] devm-helpers: Add resource managed version of irq_create_mapping() Marek Behún
2024-03-25  9:40   ` Matti Vaittinen
2024-03-25  9:57     ` Marek Behún
2024-03-26  9:00   ` Dan Carpenter
2024-03-27  9:34     ` Marek Behún
2024-03-27 11:39       ` Dan Carpenter
2024-03-23 16:43 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] platform: cznic: turris-omnia-mcu: Add support for MCU provided TRNG Marek Behún
2024-03-23 16:43 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] devm-helpers: Add resource managed version of debugfs directory create function Marek Behún
2024-03-23 17:21   ` Guenter Roeck
2024-03-23 16:43 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] platform: cznic: turris-omnia-mcu: Add support for digital message signing via debugfs Marek Behún
     [not found] ` <20240323164359.21642-9-kabel__6885.49310886941$1711212291$gmane$org@kernel.org>
2024-03-23 21:10   ` [PATCH v5 08/11] devm-helpers: Add resource managed version of debugfs directory create function Christophe JAILLET
2024-03-23 21:25     ` Marek Behún
2024-03-24  9:21       ` Christophe JAILLET
2024-03-24 15:08         ` Marek Behún
2024-03-25 11:05     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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