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From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>
To: Yang Ruibin <11162571@vivo.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	<linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<opensource.kernel@vivo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drivers:ras:Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() bug for debugfs_create_dir()
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:05:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240822100507.00000566@Huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240821071719.8277-1-11162571@vivo.com>

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:17:18 -0400
Yang Ruibin <11162571@vivo.com> wrote:

> The debugfs_create_dir() function returns error pointers.
> It never returns NULL. So use IS_ERR() to check it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Ruibin <11162571@vivo.com>
Ideally needs a fixes tag. 

Otherwise (given I looked into a similar one last night
with the same pattern).
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

> ---
>  drivers/ras/cec.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/ras/cec.c b/drivers/ras/cec.c
> index e440b15fbabc..ebd4631b685b 100644
> --- a/drivers/ras/cec.c
> +++ b/drivers/ras/cec.c
> @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ static int __init create_debugfs_nodes(void)
>  	}
>  
>  	d = debugfs_create_dir("cec", dfs);
> -	if (!d) {
> +	if (IS_ERR(d)) {
>  		pr_warn("Error creating cec debugfs node!\n");
>  		return -1;
>  	}


      reply	other threads:[~2024-08-22  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-21  7:17 [PATCH v1] drivers:ras:Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() bug for debugfs_create_dir() Yang Ruibin
2024-08-22  9:05 ` Jonathan Cameron [this message]

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