diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c b/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
index 2a116084216f..9507421de335 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/sc-debugfs.c
@@ -55,20 +55,11 @@ static const struct file_operations sc_prefetch_fops = {
 
 static int __init sc_debugfs_init(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *dir, *file;
-
-	if (!mips_debugfs_dir)
-		return -ENODEV;
+	struct dentry *dir;
 
 	dir = debugfs_create_dir("l2cache", mips_debugfs_dir);
-	if (IS_ERR(dir))
-		return PTR_ERR(dir);
-
-	file = debugfs_create_file("prefetch", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, dir,
-				   NULL, &sc_prefetch_fops);
-	if (!file)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
+	debugfs_create_file("prefetch", S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, dir, NULL,
+			    &sc_prefetch_fops);
 	return 0;
 }
 late_initcall(sc_debugfs_init);