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When an error happens, debugfs should return an error pointer value, not NULL. This will prevent the totally theoretical error where a debugfs call fails due to lack of memory, returning NULL, and that dentry value is then passed to another debugfs call, which would end up succeeding, creating a file at the root of the debugfs tree, but would then be impossible to remove (because you can not remove the directory NULL). So, to make everyone happy, always return errors, this makes the users of debugfs much simpler (they do not have to ever check the return value), and everyone can rest easy. Reported-by: Gary R Hook <ghook@amd.com> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.