Re: [PATCH v1] drivers/net: intel: iwlwifi: fix two parameters check in iwl_mei_dbgfs_register()

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 08:46:56 EST


"Greenman, Gregory" <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 21:14 +0800, Minjie Du wrote:
>> Make IS_ERR() judge the debugfs_create_dir() function return
>> in iwl_mei_dbgfs_register().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Minjie Du <duminjie@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/main.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/main.c
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/main.c
>> index 54445f39f..e5d203a62 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mei/main.c
>> @@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ static void iwl_mei_dbgfs_register(struct iwl_mei *mei)
>>  {
>>         mei->dbgfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(KBUILD_MODNAME, NULL);
>>  
>> -       if (!mei->dbgfs_dir)
>> +       if (IS_ERR(mei->dbgfs_dir))
>>                 return;
>>  
>>         debugfs_create_ulong("status", S_IRUSR,
>
> The title should be:
>
> wifi: iwlwifi: mei: ...
>
> Also, why two parameters? It only fixes dbgfs_dir?

It would be better to just remove the check, from debugfs_create_dir():

* NOTE: it's expected that most callers should _ignore_ the errors returned
* by this function. Other debugfs functions handle the fact that the "dentry"
* passed to them could be an error and they don't crash in that case.
* Drivers should generally work fine even if debugfs fails to init anyway.


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