We should preserve the original "status" error code instead of resetting it to zero. Returning ERR_PTR(0) is the same as NULL and results in a NULL dereference in the callers. I added a printk() on error instead. Fixes: 45e86b33ec8b ("RDMA/ocrdma: Cache recv DB until QP moved to RTR") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c index 2f30bda8457a..cc317e858040 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c @@ -744,7 +744,8 @@ struct ib_pd *ocrdma_alloc_pd(struct ib_device *ibdev, if (is_uctx_pd) { ocrdma_release_ucontext_pd(uctx); } else { - status = _ocrdma_dealloc_pd(dev, pd); + if (_ocrdma_dealloc_pd(dev, pd)) + pr_err("%s: _ocrdma_dealloc_pd() failed\n", __func__); } exit: return ERR_PTR(status); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html