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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 087/219] net/mlx5: Continue driver initialization despite debugfs failure

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-11-22 05:51:00
Also in: linux-rdma, lkml, stable
Subsystem: mellanox mlx5 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Saeed Mahameed, Leon Romanovsky, Tariq Toukan, Mark Bloch, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Leon Romanovsky <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 199fa087dc6b503baad06712716fac645a983e8a ]

The failure to create debugfs entry is unpleasant event, but not enough
to abort drier initialization. Align the mlx5_core code to debugfs design
and continue execution whenever debugfs_create_dir() successes or not.

Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters")
Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
index 231ed508c240a..5fac00ea62457 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c
@@ -859,11 +859,9 @@ static int mlx5_pci_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_priv *priv)
 
 	priv->numa_node = dev_to_node(&dev->pdev->dev);
 
-	priv->dbg_root = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&pdev->dev), mlx5_debugfs_root);
-	if (!priv->dbg_root) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot create debugfs dir, aborting\n");
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	if (mlx5_debugfs_root)
+		priv->dbg_root =
+			debugfs_create_dir(pci_name(pdev), mlx5_debugfs_root);
 
 	err = mlx5_pci_enable_device(dev);
 	if (err) {
-- 
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