On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote: > Remove unnecessary error handling because the only failure value that > can be returned is NULL and so the test can never be true. > > The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows: > @@ > expression e; > @@ > > e = debugfs_create_file(...); > - if(IS_ERR(e)) { e = NULL; }
Nope. For !CONFIG_DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_file returns an ERR_PTR. Regards, Sebastian