This debug message was never shown because it was checking for NULL returns but extract_hostname() returns error pointers. Fixes: 93d5cb517db3 ("cifs: Add support for failover in cifs_reconnect()") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index f66529679ca2..683310f26171 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -433,9 +433,10 @@ static void reconn_inval_dfs_target(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, kfree(server->hostname); server->hostname = extract_hostname(name); - if (!server->hostname) { - cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: failed to extract hostname from target: %d\n", - __func__, -ENOMEM); + if (IS_ERR(server->hostname)) { + cifs_dbg(FYI, + "%s: failed to extract hostname from target: %ld\n", + __func__, PTR_ERR(server->hostname)); } } -- 2.17.1