On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:

> The debugfs_create_dir() function returns NULL if an error occurs. This patch
> adds check of the result of the debufs_create_dir() execution in the
> hid_debug_register().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovm...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c  | 6 ++++--
>  drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> index e6fce23..315a980 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> @@ -2599,8 +2599,10 @@ int hid_add_device(struct hid_device *hdev)
>       ret = device_add(&hdev->dev);
>       if (!ret)
>               hdev->status |= HID_STAT_ADDED;
> -     else
> -             hid_debug_unregister(hdev);
> +     else {
> +             if (hdev->debug_dir)
> +                     hid_debug_unregister(hdev);
> +     }
>  
>       return ret;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
> index 2886b64..80fa03d 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
> @@ -1223,6 +1223,9 @@ static const struct file_operations 
> hid_debug_events_fops = {
>  void hid_debug_register(struct hid_device *hdev, const char *name)
>  {
>       hdev->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(name, hid_debug_root);
> +     if (!hdev->debug_dir)
> +             return -ENOMEM;
> +

What sense does it make to return -ENOMEM from void function?

>       hdev->debug_rdesc = debugfs_create_file("rdesc", 0400,
>                       hdev->debug_dir, hdev, &hid_debug_rdesc_fops);
>       hdev->debug_events = debugfs_create_file("events", 0400,

Fixing this is ultimately a good thing, but why did you just pick 
debugfs_create_dir() and left the other, with the same issue 
(debugfs_create_file()) intact?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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