[PATCH] mtd: nand: nandsim: fix error check

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 23:52:33 PST 2016


On Tuesday 15 November 2016 11:42 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 11/16/2016 12:09 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> debugfs_create_dir() and debugfs_create_file() returns NULL on error or
>> a pointer on success. They do not return the error value with ERR_PTR.
>> So we should not check the return with IS_ERR_OR_NULL, instead we
>> should just check for NULL.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip.mukherjee at codethink.co.uk>
>> ---
>>   drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 9 +++------
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
>> index c76287a..9b0d79a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c
>> @@ -525,15 +525,13 @@ static int nandsim_debugfs_create(struct nandsim *dev)
>>   {
>>   	struct nandsim_debug_info *dbg = &dev->dbg;
>>   	struct dentry *dent;
>> -	int err;
>> +	int err = -ENODEV;
>
> Why don't you just nuke the err altogether and just return -ENODEV ?

That was the first version which i made and discarded before sending. I 
will go and find it now.

Regards
Sudip



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