Revert "driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()"

This reverts commit 31b4b67 as it is reported to cause boot regressions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <[email protected]> Cc: Longlong Xia <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
kadamski · Feb 14, 2023 · 17c4576 · 17c4576
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commit 17c4576
Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 5 deletions.
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -3602,9 +3602,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 		if (error)
 			goto SysEntryError;
 
-		error = devtmpfs_create_node(dev);
-		if (error)
-			goto DevtmpfsError;
+		devtmpfs_create_node(dev);
 	}
 
 	/* Notify clients of device addition.  This call must come
@@ -3660,8 +3658,6 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 done:
 	put_device(dev);
 	return error;
- DevtmpfsError:
-	device_remove_sys_dev_entry(dev);
  SysEntryError:
 	if (MAJOR(dev->devt))
 		device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_dev);