Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix error code in hugetlbfs_alloc_inode

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:09:10AM +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 09:03:04AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>When kmem_cache_alloc fails alloc slab object from
>>hugetlbfs_inode_cachep, return -ENOMEM in usual. But
>>hugetlbfs_alloc_inode implementation has inconsitency
>>with it and returns NULL. Fix it to return -ENOMEM.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>---
>> fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c |    2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>>diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>>index c4b85d0..79a0f33 100644
>>--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>>+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
>>@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ static struct inode *hugetlbfs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>> 	p = kmem_cache_alloc(hugetlbfs_inode_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
>> 	if (unlikely(!p)) {
>> 		hugetlbfs_inc_free_inodes(sbinfo);
>>-		return NULL;
>>+		return -ENOMEM;
>
>The function is expecting "struct inode *", man.
>
>static struct inode *hugetlbfs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
>
Hmm, replace it by ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). 

Regards,
Wanpeng Li

>Thanks,
>Gavin
>
>> 	}
>> 	return &p->vfs_inode;
>> }
>>-- 
>>1.7.5.4
>>
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