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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: yingsha xu <ysxu@hust.edu.cn>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: hust-os-kernel-patches@googlegroups.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mac80211: use IS_ERR to check return value
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:36:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f23c038b2b586a45a8b3c757495d5bb51ee4ac7e.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230416083028.14044-1-ysxu@hust.edu.cn>

On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 16:30 +0800, yingsha xu wrote:
> According to the annotation of function debugfs_create_fs, if
> an error occurs, ERR_PTR(-ERROR) will be returned instead of
> a null pointer or zero value.
> 
> Fix it by using IS_ERR().

I don't this this is right, or fixed anything ...

If debugfs indeed returned an ERR_PTR() value, then the later debugfs
adds will do nothing.

Since it doesn't look like debugfs_create_dir() can actually return NULL
these days (not sure it ever could), I guess we can even remove the
check.

But you could've just read the comment there too, to know what the NULL
check was about ...

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-18  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-16  8:30 [PATCH] net: mac80211: use IS_ERR to check return value yingsha xu
2023-04-18  8:36 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2023-04-19 11:23   ` Dan Carpenter

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