On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:11:19 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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. > > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> > Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]> > Cc: John Fastabend <[email protected]> > Cc: Edwin Peer <[email protected]> > Cc: Yangtao Li <[email protected]> > Cc: Simon Horman <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> I take it this is the case since commit ff9fb72bc077 ("debugfs: return error values, not NULL")? I.e. v5.0? It'd be useful to know for backport purposes.
