Re: [PATCH v8 6/6] iommu/tegra-smmu: Add pagetable mappings to debugfs

[Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 10:40:42PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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> 09.12.2021 22:32, Nicolin Chen пишет:
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:47:18PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
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> >> 09.12.2021 10:38, Nicolin Chen пишет:
> >>> @@ -545,6 +719,15 @@ static void tegra_smmu_detach_as(struct tegra_smmu *smmu,
> >>>               if (group->swgrp != swgrp)
> >>>                       continue;
> >>>               group->as = NULL;
> >>> +
> >>> +             if (smmu->debugfs_mappings) {
> >> Do we really need this check?
> >>
> >> Looks like all debugfs_create_dir() usages in this driver are incorrect,
> >> that function never returns NULL. Please fix this.
> > debugfs_create_dir returns ERR_PTR on failure. So here should be
> > to check !IS_ERR. Thanks for pointing it out!
> >
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> All debugfs functions handle IS_ERR(). GregKH removes all such checks
> all over the kernel. So the check shouldn't be needed at all, please
> remove it if it's unneeded or prove that it's needed.

debugfs_create_file can handle a NULL parent, but not ERR_PTR one,
and then it puts the new node under the root. So either passing an
ERR_PTR parent or creating orphan nodes here doesn't sound good...