The alloc_memory_type() function return error pointers on error instead of NULL. Use IS_ERR() to check the return value to fix this. Fixes: 7b88bda3761b ("mm/demotion/dax/kmem: set node's abstract distance to MEMTIER_DEFAULT_DAX_ADISTANCE") Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-tiers.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory-tiers.c b/mm/memory-tiers.c index fa8c9d07f9ce..ac0dae9e54bf 100644 --- a/mm/memory-tiers.c +++ b/mm/memory-tiers.c @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static int __init memory_tier_init(void) * than default DRAM tier. */ default_dram_type = alloc_memory_type(MEMTIER_ADISTANCE_DRAM); - if (!default_dram_type) + if (IS_ERR(default_dram_type)) panic("%s() failed to allocate default DRAM tier\n", __func__); /* -- 2.37.3.671.ge2130fe6da78.dirty