| Message ID | 20230202093256.32458-2-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Not Applicable |
| Headers | show |
| Series | some minor fixes of error checking about debugfs_rename() | expand |
| Context | Check | Description |
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| netdev/tree_selection | success | Guessed tree name to be net-next |
| netdev/fixes_present | success | Fixes tag not required for -next series |
| netdev/subject_prefix | success | Link |
| netdev/cover_letter | success | Series has a cover letter |
| netdev/patch_count | success | Link |
| netdev/header_inline | success | No static functions without inline keyword in header files |
| netdev/build_32bit | success | Errors and warnings before: 2 this patch: 2 |
| netdev/cc_maintainers | success | CCed 2 of 2 maintainers |
| netdev/build_clang | success | Errors and warnings before: 1 this patch: 1 |
| netdev/module_param | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
| netdev/verify_signedoff | success | Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer |
| netdev/check_selftest | success | No net selftest shell script |
| netdev/verify_fixes | success | No Fixes tag |
| netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn | success | Errors and warnings before: 2 this patch: 2 |
| netdev/checkpatch | success | total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 10 lines checked |
| netdev/kdoc | success | Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0 |
| netdev/source_inline | success | Was 0 now: 0 |
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index 2e8e112b1993..58a35afb7c5d 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -802,8 +802,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_lookup_and_remove); * exist for rename to succeed. * * This function will return a pointer to old_dentry (which is updated to - * reflect renaming) if it succeeds. If an error occurs, %NULL will be - * returned. + * reflect renaming) if it succeeds. If an error occurs, %ERR_PTR(-ERROR) + * will be returned. * * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be * returned.
Since commit ff9fb72bc077 ("debugfs: return error values, not NULL") changed return value of debugfs_rename() in error cases from %NULL to %ERR_PTR(-ERROR), the comment of debugfs_rename should also be updated so as not to mislead readers. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)