On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:16:59PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There is only one caller for vhost_kvzalloc() and it expects NULL on
> allocation failure. Most people would probably expect that so let's
> change ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) to NULL.
>
> Fixes: 4de7255f7d2b ('vhost: extend memory regions allocation to vmalloc')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ouch. Thanks a lot for noticing this, and it's a good thing
you did before Linus merged it.
I'll squash this into Igor's patch and redo my pull request.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index a9fe859..99d613b 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static void *vhost_kvzalloc(unsigned long size)
> if (!n) {
> n = vzalloc(size);
> if (!n)
> - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> + return NULL;
> }
> return n;
> }
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