diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index c1a7efb310bf3517ab1bf52bb1312a79a517f2d6..aedaeba82ae5503a41cbd6ee366601ecb67ae31b 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -459,11 +459,8 @@ int sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 	int ret;
 
 	ret = __sysfs_add_one(acxt, sd);
-	if (ret == -EEXIST) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' "
+	WARN(ret == -EEXIST, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' "
 		       "can not be created\n", sd->s_name);
-		WARN_ON(1);
-	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 3f07893ff8968a483f4c5fc45646c80e3535966f..c9e4e5091da14c24b185b67419f3207188150f96 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -337,9 +337,8 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	if (kobj->ktype && kobj->ktype->sysfs_ops)
 		ops = kobj->ktype->sysfs_ops;
 	else {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "missing sysfs attribute operations for "
+		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "missing sysfs attribute operations for "
 		       "kobject: %s\n", kobject_name(kobj));
-		WARN_ON(1);
 		goto err_out;
 	}
 
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index eeba38417b1d4c5db2a54e381fb68b8441eb7743..fe611949a7f7419f789dbb8b4335b76d03e9fab9 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -134,9 +134,8 @@ void sysfs_remove_group(struct kobject * kobj,
 	if (grp->name) {
 		sd = sysfs_get_dirent(dir_sd, grp->name);
 		if (!sd) {
-			printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfs group %p not found for "
+			WARN(!sd, KERN_WARNING "sysfs group %p not found for "
 				"kobject '%s'\n", grp, kobject_name(kobj));
-			WARN_ON(!sd);
 			return;
 		}
 	} else