Looks good, Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> While we're at it the next block does a direct return manually unlocking 'ioc->pci_access_mutex' and rc is never set for any of the error paths in 'BRM_status_show'... Maybe we should add this one on top of your patch: diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c index 62e552838565..70d2d0987249 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c @@ -3149,20 +3149,20 @@ BRM_status_show(struct device *cdev, struct device_attribute *attr, } /* pci_access_mutex lock acquired by sysfs show path */ mutex_lock(&ioc->pci_access_mutex); - if (ioc->pci_error_recovery || ioc->remove_host) { - mutex_unlock(&ioc->pci_access_mutex); - return 0; - } + if (ioc->pci_error_recovery || ioc->remove_host) + goto out; /* allocate upto GPIOVal 36 entries */ sz = offsetof(Mpi2IOUnitPage3_t, GPIOVal) + (sizeof(u16) * 36); io_unit_pg3 = kzalloc(sz, GFP_KERNEL); if (!io_unit_pg3) { + rc = -ENOMEM; ioc_err(ioc, "%s: failed allocating memory for iounit_pg3: (%d) bytes\n", __func__, sz); goto out; } + rc = -EINVAL; if (mpt3sas_config_get_iounit_pg3(ioc, &mpi_reply, io_unit_pg3, sz) != 0) { ioc_err(ioc, "%s: failed reading iounit_pg3\n",