[PATCH] wifi: mt76: Drop unneeded mt76_register_debugfs_fops() return checks
Ingyu Jang
ingyujang25 at korea.ac.kr
Tue May 19 01:52:14 PDT 2026
mt76_register_debugfs_fops() returns the dentry from
debugfs_create_dir(), which yields an error pointer on failure
(notably ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) when CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=n), never NULL. Per
commit ff9fb72bc077 ("debugfs: return error values, not NULL"),
callers do not need to check the return value.
Drop the dead !dir checks in mt7615/mt7915/mt7921/mt7925/mt7996
_init_debugfs(). Converting them to IS_ERR() instead would have
exposed a probe abort on CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=n, since each
*_init_debugfs() caller propagates the helper's return value.
This patch supersedes an earlier proposal that converted the checks
to IS_ERR().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260514193243.2518979-1-ingyujang25@korea.ac.kr
Signed-off-by: Ingyu Jang <ingyujang25 at korea.ac.kr>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/debugfs.c | 2 --
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/debugfs.c | 3 +--
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/debugfs.c | 2 --
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/debugfs.c | 2 --
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/debugfs.c | 2 --
5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/debugfs.c
index 0f7b20152279c..6a1475e3c8999 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7615/debugfs.c
@@ -550,8 +550,6 @@ int mt7615_init_debugfs(struct mt7615_dev *dev)
struct dentry *dir;
dir = mt76_register_debugfs_fops(&dev->mphy, &fops_regval);
- if (!dir)
- return -ENOMEM;
if (is_mt7615(&dev->mt76))
debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(dev->mt76.dev, "xmit-queues", dir,
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/debugfs.c
index 26ed3745af43e..4d0854fe785bd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/debugfs.c
@@ -1296,8 +1296,7 @@ int mt7915_init_debugfs(struct mt7915_phy *phy)
struct dentry *dir;
dir = mt76_register_debugfs_fops(phy->mt76, NULL);
- if (!dir)
- return -ENOMEM;
+
debugfs_create_file("muru_debug", 0600, dir, dev, &fops_muru_debug);
debugfs_create_file("muru_stats", 0400, dir, phy,
&mt7915_muru_stats_fops);
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/debugfs.c
index 4333005b3ad95..a5a70d8e8544a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7921/debugfs.c
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ int mt7921_init_debugfs(struct mt792x_dev *dev)
struct dentry *dir;
dir = mt76_register_debugfs_fops(&dev->mphy, &fops_regval);
- if (!dir)
- return -ENOMEM;
if (mt76_is_mmio(&dev->mt76))
debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(dev->mt76.dev, "xmit-queues",
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/debugfs.c
index e2498659c884e..d01ff49de47af 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/debugfs.c
@@ -291,8 +291,6 @@ int mt7925_init_debugfs(struct mt792x_dev *dev)
struct dentry *dir;
dir = mt76_register_debugfs_fops(&dev->mphy, &fops_regval);
- if (!dir)
- return -ENOMEM;
if (mt76_is_mmio(&dev->mt76))
debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(dev->mt76.dev, "xmit-queues",
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/debugfs.c
index 76d623b2cafb4..327fc2032c8da 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7996/debugfs.c
@@ -856,8 +856,6 @@ int mt7996_init_debugfs(struct mt7996_dev *dev)
struct dentry *dir;
dir = mt76_register_debugfs_fops(&dev->mphy, NULL);
- if (!dir)
- return -ENOMEM;
debugfs_create_file("hw-queues", 0400, dir, dev,
&mt7996_hw_queues_fops);
--
2.34.1
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