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kcov: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
never do something different based on this.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190122152151.16139-46-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Greg Kroah-Hartman 2019-03-07 16:29:56 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 13610aa908
commit ec9672d576
1 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -444,10 +444,8 @@ static int __init kcov_init(void)
* there is no need to protect it against removal races. The
* use of debugfs_create_file_unsafe() is actually safe here.
*/
if (!debugfs_create_file_unsafe("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops)) {
pr_err("failed to create kcov in debugfs\n");
return -ENOMEM;
}
debugfs_create_file_unsafe("kcov", 0600, NULL, NULL, &kcov_fops);
return 0;
}