diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c b/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
index 5eefe3281b24..01f1154cdb0c 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ static int __init sc_debugfs_init(void)
 
 	file = debugfs_create_file("prefetch", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, dir,
 				   NULL, &sc_prefetch_fops);
-	if (IS_ERR(file))
-		return PTR_ERR(file);
+	if (!file)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	return 0;
 }