Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx5: Don't fail driver on failure to create debugfs

[Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 04:44:00AM +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 11:34 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 12:27:24PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:28:37PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> > > > 
> > > > Clang warns:
> > > > 
> > > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1278:6: warning:
> > > > variable
> > > > 'err' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is true
> > > > [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
> > > >         if (!priv->dbg_root) {
> > > >             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1303:9: note:
> > > > uninitialized use occurs here
> > > >         return err;
> > > >                ^~~
> > > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1278:2: note:
> > > > remove the
> > > > 'if' if its condition is always false
> > > >         if (!priv->dbg_root) {
> > > >         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c:1259:9: note:
> > > > initialize
> > > > the variable 'err' to silence this warning
> > > >         int err;
> > > >                ^
> > > >                 = 0
> > > > 1 warning generated.
> > > > 
> > > > The check of returned value of debugfs_create_dir() is wrong
> > > > because
> > > > by the design debugfs failures should never fail the driver and
> > > > the
> > > > check itself was wrong too. The kernel compiled without
> > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
> > > > will return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) and not NULL as expected.
> > > > 
> > > > Fixes: 11f3b84d7068 ("net/mlx5: Split mdev init and pci init")
> > > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1042
> > > > Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
> > > 
> > > Thanks! That's what I figured it should be.
> > > 
> > > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > > ---
> > > > Original discussion:
> > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200530055447.1028004-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
> > > > ---
> > > >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 5 -----
> > > >  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > > b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > > index df46b1fce3a7..110e8d277d15 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
> > > > @@ -1275,11 +1275,6 @@ static int mlx5_mdev_init(struct
> > > > mlx5_core_dev *dev, int profile_idx)
> > > > 
> > > >  	priv->dbg_root = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(dev->device),
> > > >  					    mlx5_debugfs_root);
> > > > -	if (!priv->dbg_root) {
> > > > -		dev_err(dev->device, "mlx5_core: error, Cannot create
> > > > debugfs dir, aborting\n");
> > > > -		goto err_dbg_root;
> > 
> > Actually, this removes the only use of err_dbg_root, so that should
> > be
> > removed at the same time.
> > 
> 
> Fixed this up and applied to net-next-mlx5, 
> Thanks!
> 

Hi Saeed,

I see this warning in mainline now, is this something you were planning
to have merged this cycle or next? I see it in several configs so it
would be nice if it could be resolved this one, since it was introduced
by a patch in this cycle even though the core issue has been around for
a few months.

Cheers,
Nathan